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Top Gear: BBC in multimillion-pound James May and Richard Hammond bid

The BBC has made a multimillion-pound bid to keep James May and Richard Hammond on Top Gear following the axing of Jeremy Clarkson.BBC2 chiefs are understood to want May and Hammond to remain on the show alongside a different guest presenter each week.Such a move would scupper the three presenters reuniting on a rival motoring show on another channel, but could pave the way for Clarkson to return as a presenter on a future series.

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Millions of WordPress sites left vulnerable by plugin flaw

Millions of WordPress sites have been left vulnerable by a scripting flaw found in two popular plugins, one of which is present in the default installation of the blogging platform, reports Computer World.The two plugins are JetPack and Twenty Fifteen, the first of which is a customization and performance tool, and the latter is a theme designed to allow infinite scrolling. Twenty Fifteen is installed into new WordPress sites as a default, multiplying the number of potential targets.

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DDoS attacks have doubled in a year, says Akamai

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, according to cloud service provider Akamai, with more than double the number reported from this time a year ago.Not only that, but the methods are changing to ensure DDoS attacks are longer-lasting, and inflict more damage, reports ZDNet. While last year DDoS attacks were characterized by high bandwidth but short duration, so far in 2015 attacks have used less bandwidth, but been of a far longer duration. An Akamai spokesperson told SC Magazine, “An HTTP flood will not consume a lot of bandwidth, but it will generate a lot of HTTP requests.” This still overwhelms the site, but makes it harder to see a malicious attack coming.

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