Millions of Websites Affected by Drupal Hack Attack

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Millions of Websites Affected by Drupal Hack
Attack Drupal creates open-source
software at no cost for both
individuals and organizations. The software
attracts the users who lack advanced
technical skills. Drupal includes a powerful
content management platform that helps
bloggers to provide information to the
visitors. Drupal is used to effectively
manage the web content, text, images, videos,
etc. Millions of websites which had used Drupal
to build their site may have fallen victim for
attackers who took the advantage of a bug
in the software. According to BBC News,
more than 12 million websites have
been attacked by hackers for declining
to have a crucial patch before the
attack. Probably, the attackers might have
taken all the data present on
websites. They might have also
installed backdoors which would allow
them to get back to the website to
collect more data in future. Attackers
could have copied the data from your website
and could be using it maliciously without even
leaving the trace of the attack. Drupal had
issued a warning in prior to the attack saying
that the users who have not applied patch for
the recently discovered bug must assume
that their website has been hacked. The report
says that the automated attacks exploited the bug
in order to take control over websites. Drupal,
also added that applying patch after attackers
gaining access to the sites has got nothing to do
with it, as they will have managed to install
backdoors to avail access to your
websites. Estimation says that around 5.1
of one billion websites that used Drupal
had to apply patch for the bug at the time of
automated attack. So, up to 12 million sites
could have been affected by this automated
attack. Mr. Stockley, an analyst states that
Drupal should no longer lean on users to
apply patches.Because, many site owners will
have never received the announcement. So, Drupal
badly needs to have an automatic updater which
rolls out the security updates by
default. Remedial measures for Drupal hack
attack Security analysts who have suffered
Drupal hack attack recommend users to take
measures to diminish hacker damage.
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1. They recommend that Drupal users to have
forensic copies of all the files that hackers
compromise. 2. The analysts also advise Drupal
users to store the copies of their web content
on media such as CD or DVD discs. So that the
users can decide whether to keep, redesign or
discard their websites based on the extremity of
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