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70,000 Memcached Servers Can Be Hacked Using Eight-Month-Old Flaws

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Thenewstack; By Lucian Constantin 		Mail this story
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Eight months after three critical vulnerabilities were fixed in the memcached open source caching software, there are over 70,000 caching servers directly exposed on the internet that have yet to be patched. Hackers could execute malicious code on them or steal potentially sensitive data from their caches, security researchers warn.

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