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

Security Affairs

in the WordPress W3 Total Cache plugin could expose metadata from internal services and cloud apps. 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.

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The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Krebs on Security

This community places a special premium on accounts with short “OG” usernames, and some of its most successful and notorious members were known to use all of the methods Microsoft attributed to LAPSUS$ in the service of hijacking prized OG accounts. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

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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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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. Leaks, breaches and hacks will continue to challenge enterprises until one very big problem is solved: access management.

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NEW TECH: ‘Passwordless authentication’ takes us closer to eliminating passwords as the weak link

The Last Watchdog

Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. If there ever was such a thing as a cybersecurity silver bullet it would do one thing really well: eliminate passwords. Passwords may have been very effective securing Roman roads.

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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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When Consumerisation and Cloud Services = Shadow IT

CGI

When Consumerisation and Cloud Services = Shadow IT. We have all heard the term 'Consumerisation of IT'- the specific impact that consumer-orientated technologies can have on enterprises as they are adopted by end users, often bypassing an enterprises' IT department. 53% use CRM and Customer Service tools of which 23% was shadow IT.

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