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

Security Affairs

The issue allows authenticated users (Subscriber-level or higher) to exploit a missing capability check, exposing sensitive data, consuming service limits, and accessing internal services, including cloud app metadata. The vulnerability impacts plugin version up to 2.8.1. ” reads the advisory published by WordPress.

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Lucky MVP 13

Troy Hunt

This year, they sent me something nice in return: This is so cool, thanks @FBI 😊 pic.twitter.com/aqMi3as91O — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) June 28, 2023 Thank you to everyone that helps me on this journey by consuming the things I create. The latter is a great example of community uptake: as of today, there were 5.12

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

“They were calling up consumer service and tech support personnel, instructing them to reset their passwords. The Twitter hackers largely pulled it off by brute force, writes Wired on the July 15, 2020 hack. “Someone was trying to phish employee credentials, and they were good at it,” Wired reported.

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What will be your decisive moment to secure your cloud applications in a Zero Trust world?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The study also revealed that 94% of IT professionals say their organizations’ security policies around access management was influenced by breaches of consumer services in the last 12 months.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing.

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CNIL Releases Guidance on Teleworking

Hunton Privacy

In particular, employees should refrain from transmitting confidential data through consumer services (storage, file sharing and collaborative editing services) or via consumer email services. Transmitting personal data in a secure way.

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Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail

CGI

The 2019 CGI Client Global Insights reveals that harnessing the power of data analytics to drive real-time insights and improved personalization for new revenue streams is a top business priority for the retail and consumer services executives interviewed.

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