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Two critical flaws have set off a global race between those trying to close the gaps and those seeking to exploit them. A professor offers sound advice on how to maintain good »cyber hygiene«.

Friendly hackers uncovered a massive security flaw. And then the one thing that must not happen did

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A race against time and malicious actors.

That is how Jens Myrup Pedersen, a professor of cybersecurity at Aarhus University, described Wednesday evening’s incident, when the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) announced that two very serious vulnerabilities had been found in one of the most widely used programming languages behind websites, online stores and portals.

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