Category: Privacy & Compliance

Millions of websites vulnerable due to zero-day in WordPress plugin

Millions of websites vulnerable due to zero-day in WordPress plugin

WordPress is under fire after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the popular plugin 'File Manager.' Millions of WordPress sites have been probed to find the weakness and exploit it this past week. According to Defiant, the company behind the Wordfence web firewall, the sites attacked could be mo... Read more

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By 2024, CEOs will be held responsible for cybersecurity failures

By 2024, CEOs will be held responsible for cybersecurity failures

Gartner expects CEOs to be directly held responsible for lapses in cybersecurity in the next four years. The liability for failing to safeguard a company against attack will be attributed to CEOs' failure by 2024. The analyst firm predicted that cyber-physical systems (CPSs) incidents will final... Read more

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Browser histories are accurate enough to identify users

Browser histories are accurate enough to identify users

Userprofiles are used in identifying and re-identifying users as they browse the internet. A study presented at the Usenix Security conference states that a short list of browsing history is enough for advertisers to profile you. They do not need to have a long list of everything you have looked at... Read more

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Dell expects 60% of their workforce to work from home post-pandemic

Dell expects 60% of their workforce to work from home post-pandemic

Jeff Clarke, the COO of Dell, said that about 60% of the 165,000 Dell employees would not return to the office regularly, even after the pandemic. During the Q2 earnings conference, the executive said the business had completed its 171st day of working remotely. He continued to add that this new... Read more

date4 years ago

Android’s security flaw allows malicious apps to steal user data

Sensitive data on Android phones could have been stolen by apps using a security vulnerability which is present on most Android devices. Oversecured, an app security startup, found a flaw in the widely used Play Core library that allows app developers to deploy in-app push updates and new featur... Read more

date4 years ago
Apple blocks Facebook update after revenue discussion

Apple blocks Facebook update after revenue discussion

Apple has blocked an update of the Facebook app in which the app shows a message about revenue collection. According to Facebook, Apple refuses the update because it shows 'irrelevant information' to users, referring to the message about the 30 percent Apple fee. This month, Facebook wanted to l... Read more

date4 years ago

Qbot malware is back after ten years with terrifying new features

Qbot first appeared about ten years ago. It went into the shadows and has resurfaced with new features. It is now roaming the wild with one of the new features that give it the ability to hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads.  In a detailed report by Check Point Software Technologies rese... Read more

date4 years ago
‘Oracle close to acquiring TikTok’

‘Oracle close to acquiring TikTok’

Oracle has the best chance of acquiring TikTok at this moment. A deal would be announced within 48 hours, according to sources from CNBC on Friday. According to an insider, Oracle offers 20 billion to 30 billion dollars to TikTok parent company ByteDance. This would amount to approximately 10 bi... Read more

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