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A flaw in the W3 Total Cache plugin exposes hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites to attacks

Security Affairs

A WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin vulnerability could allow attackers to access information from internal services, including metadata on cloud-based apps. A severe vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12365 (CVSS score of 8.5) in the WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin could expose metadata from internal services and cloud apps.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Key dates 31 March 2024 – PCI DSS v4.0 Subscribe now The post The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. transitioning deadline Version 3.2.1 of the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is being retired on 31 March, to be replaced by version 4.0

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Data Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink

John Battelle's Searchblog

” Here’s what I said back in January: “As the bloom came off the Generative AI rose in 2024, everyone started talking about AI agents as the Next Big Thing. Google, Apple, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon all of them (and about a million startups) are trying to build user agents for both enterprise and consumer use cases.