Bleeping Computer Two high severity security vulnerabilities found in the PageLayer plugin can let attackers to potentially wipe the contents or take over WordPress sites using vulnerable plugin versions. PageLayer is a WordPress plugin with over 200,000+ …
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WIRED The Covid-19 pandemic has created prime conditions for scams. From phishing attacks to unemployment fraud, attackers have put new, more exploitative twists on their classic hustles. And now the Federal Trade Commission is warning …
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Bleeping Computer A threat actor has shared the 2014 voter information for close to 2 million Indonesians on a well-known hacker forum and claims they will release a total of 200 million at a later date. …
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Bleeping Computer EasyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has disclosed that they were hacked and that the email addresses and travel information for 9 million customers were exposed. For some of these customers, credit card details …
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Cybersecurity Insiders On May 9th of this year, computer systems at Iran’s Port of Shahid Rajaee were cyber-attacked disrupting the operations of the port for hours blocking down vessels and creating a traffic jam on …
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The Hacker News More than 4,000 Android apps that use Google’s cloud-hosted Firebase databases are ‘unknowingly’ leaking sensitive information on their users, including their email addresses, usernames, passwords, phone numbers, full names, chat messages and …
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The Register Three weeks after Google removed 49 Chrome extensions from its browser’s software store for stealing crypto-wallet credentials, 11 more password-swiping add-ons have been spotted – and some are still available to download. The …
The Hacker News Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and …
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WIRED Open source software has the potential to be very secure. Unlike proprietary code that can only be accessed directly by its own developers, anyone can vet open source projects to spot flaws and bugs. …
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WIRED As countries around the world rush to build smartphone apps that can help track the spread of Covid-19, privacy advocates have cautioned that those systems could, if implemented badly, result in a dangerous mix …
India’s Covid-19 Contact Tracing App Could Leak Patient Locations Read More »
Bleeping Computer Hackers have launched a massive attack against more than 900,000 WordPress sites seeking to redirect visitors to malvertising sites or plant a backdoor if an administrator is logged in. Based on the payload, …
Massive campaign targets 900,000 WordPress sites in a week Read More »
The Register Britain is sleepwalking into another coronavirus disaster by failing to listen to global consensus and expert analysis with the release of the NHS COVID-19 contact-tracking app. On Monday, the UK government explained in …