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CVE-2018-20715 and the truth about it

January 17, 2019 by Marco Steinhäuser Leave a Comment

On January 15th 2019, the security issue CVE-2018-20715 was entered into the database of NVD and naturally has been wide-spread through the security scene via Twitter and other social media. In this blog post I'll try to explain why this announcement is close to utter bollocks. The security issue is related to software, not to a company. The company's name is OXID eSales while the software this [Read more...]

Security issues: calculate a maintenance budget when starting your online business

January 30, 2017 by Marco Steinhäuser Leave a Comment

Going over this January's IT and e-commerce news, it was dominated by evil tidings about security issues in this or that web based system. In quick succession, different web applications were on the "security advisory" news: PHPMailer, Magento and Shopware. In a matter of fact, none of the software vendors (not talking about delivering commercial or open source software) is immune to security [Read more...]