Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!raspberry.therandymon.com!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: 47% of dot-com sites use vulnerable javascript libraries Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:47:46 +0000 Organization: solani.org Lines: 11 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: solani.org 1489489201 15514 eJwNxcERwDAIA7CVIGDjjgPNsf8IrT5C0PlWEkwsNs1tJuQP68YtnU714u9SA+8y4WztSNbxAQblEHA= (14 Mar 2017 11:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2JFs2PsOgC7zDl+9TXkJ0tMXcfs= X-User-ID: eJwNyMEBwCAIA8CVFJJIx0EK+4/Q3vPo2qoDUeBwIpLgH2v8clRdK1ebjpvFJXZCeNufNPPGBxMiEJg= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwNx8EBADEEBMCWQli0E2z/JdzNb/xC0GFwmNPZkgziRI3Idjyd6T3/EGpJ6uorT3ZGwe8HJR8RIg== Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:13311 From the «CPAN called and says to suck it» department: Title: Today's WWW is built on pillars of sand: Buggy, exploitable JavaScript libs are everywhere Author: Thomas Claburn Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 05:56:14 -0400 Link: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/14/outdated_javascript_libraries_weaken_web_security/ Your dependencies are not dependable The web has a security problem: code libraries. Almost 88 per cent of the top 75,000 websites and 47 per cent of .com websites rely on at least one vulnerable JavaScript library.…