Security flaw left Parliament website open to hackers

Danny Palmer
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'Depressing basic error' could have been used to distribute malware within parliament, reveals programmer Terence Eden

The UK Parliament website until recently contained security flaws that left it open to exploitation by hackers and other cyber criminals. A well-known coding vulnerability allowed visitors to us...

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