Even at the most security-aware financial firms, developers still use live data in their development and development environments. The popular NextGEN Gallery plugin was recently patched to address a severe vulnerability that put the vulnerable database at risk. Read the full article. The vulnerability was discovered in the post-mortem of a database hosted by Microsoft’s TrueDialog database. The full article is published on Monday, October 8, at 10:30 a.m. ET. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90, visit a local Samaritans branch or click here for details.
Source: https://threatpost.com/using-live-data-development-risky-031710/73701/