Tag Archives: takeover

Microsoft may help finance Yahoo takeover amid board changes

Yahoo logoYahoo’s sale is moving slowly, but new money from Microsoft may help accelerate it.

A new report from Kara Swisher in Re/code today said that Microsoft executives are meeting with private equity firms as they consider a takeover of the struggling internet giant. According to the report, Microsoft is...

More Comments are closed
Bug in Magento puts millions of e-commerce sites at risk of takeover

Millions of online merchants are at risk of hijacking attacks made possible by a just-patched vulnerability in the Magento e-commerce platform.

The stored cross-site scripting (XSS) bug is present in virtually all versions of Magento Community Edition and Enterprise Edition prior to 1.9.2.3 and 1.14.2.3, respectively, according to researchers from Sucuri, the website security firm that discovered and privately reported the vulnerability. It allows attackers...

More Comments are closed