Blog Security Research The Race to Patch: Attackers Leverage Sample Exploit Code in WordPress Plug-in Ryan Barnett is a Principal Security Researcher working on the Akamai Threat Research Team supporting App and API Protector security solutions. In addition to his primary work at Akamai, he is also a WASC Board Member and OWASP Project Leader for: Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID) and Distributed Web Honeypots. Mr. Barnett is a frequent speaker at security industry conferences such as Black Hat and has authored two web security books: Preventing Web Attacks with Apache (Pearson) and The Web Application Defender's Cookbook: Battling Hackers and Defending Users (Wiley).…