WordPress silently fixed a serious content injection vulnerability when it pushed out its latest security release, 4.7.2, last week
Tag Archives: Web Security
Printing and Marketing Firm Leaks High-Profile Customers’ Data
MacKeeper says it has found gigabytes of sensitive personal data stored by PIP Printing and Marketing Services and accessible online.
Google Adds Security Key Enforcement to G Suite Apps, Hosted S/MIME to Gmail
Google pumped more life into the use of physical keys as a second form of authentication when it added Security Key enforcement support to G Suite.
HTTPS Hits 50 Percent Traffic Milestone
This week HTTPS hit a huge milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS.
Latest Ubuntu Update Includes OpenSSL Fixes
Ubuntu users are encouraged to update their operating systems to the latest OpenSSL package versions to address a collection of vulnerabilities.
Flaws Found in Popular Printer Models
Researchers have found a half-dozen flaws in popular printer models that allow attackers to do everything from steal print jobs to conduct buffer overflow attacks.
Facebook Tackles Account Recovery with Delegated Recovery Protocol
Facebook’s Delegated Recovery delegates account-recovery permissions to third-party accounts controlled by the user. GitHub is the program’s first partner.
Telemarketing Firm Leaks 400,000 Recorded Calls
Credit card data and personal information in the form of recorded telephone sales pitches and sales confirmations were leaked online by telemarketer.
Many Android VPN Apps Breaking Privacy Promises
Academics studying 283 Android VPN apps quantified a number of problems associated with native platform support for VPN clients through the BIND_VPN_SERVICE.
Cisco Warns of Critical Flaw in Teleconferencing Gear
Cisco Systems is warning customers of a critical vulnerability affecting three of its TelePresence MCU platform models.