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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. ” reads the advisory published by WordPress.

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Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail

CGI

Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail. Retailers are fully aware that their future relies largely on their ability to use data efficiently. However, in today’s dynamic and highly competitive retail sector, retailers need to accelerate their plans and commit resolutely to the path of data monetization.

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The Race to Hide Your Voice

WIRED Threat Level

Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. Many employees passed the messages onto the security team and went back to business.

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

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Massive amounts of data are constantly produced globally, shared and stored by a rapidly growing number of devices in an expanding cloud environment. Data is useless unless it can be accessed, so it must reside in a place that’s penetrable, but only by those who are authorized. Trusted access is the key to the digital kingdom.

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

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

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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. Adding to this will be very smart uses of generative AI – centered around wisely directing LLM capacities onto specific data lakes containing threat intelligence information.