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For the Second time Cybergaint Comodo Security was hacked this year

Comodo Security Notice

Comodo, which bills itself as a "worldwide pioneer in cybersecurity Solutions," said its comodo forum was hacked. 

The confirmation came in no not exactly a forum post, which confirms a programmer exploited an as of late unveiled helplessness in vBulletin, a prevalent forum software utilized by Comodo. The blemish, which requires little expertise to misuse, enables an attacker to remotely run vindictive code on a defenseless forum. In this situation, the exploit was utilized to dump the whole client database. 

Exploit code  which was released on September 23rd. After two days, vBulletin released patches for the software. 

In any case, in spite of asserting in its revelation that it takes "security very seriously and is our highest priority,"  the organization didn't promptly fix its forum software. Four days after the patches were released, its forum was hacked. 

As per the exposure, Comodo said the black hat hackers took usernames, names and email addresses, just as the client's last IP address used to get to the forum. Some web based social media data were likewise taken in the breach. 

Comodo said it has around 245,000 enrolled forum users. 

It's not the most damaging breach on record, however it's a wounding security lapse by for an organization that professes to be half-not too bad at this stuff. 

This is Comodo's subsequent security mess this year following another rupture including an uncovered exposed password, which permitted a security analyst access to the organization's intranet — and access to inside records and reports.

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