Patches have been issued to contain a "severe" security vulnerability in UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over three million installations, that can be weaponized to download the site's private data using an account on the vulnerable sites. "All versions of UpdraftPlus from March 2019 onwards have contained a vulnerability caused by a missing permissions-level check, allowing untrusted users

Adobe on Thursday updated its advisory for an actively exploited zero-day affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source to patch a newly discovered flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary code execution. <!--adsense--> Tracked as CVE-2022-24087, the issue – like CVE-2022-24086 – is rated 9.8 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system and relates to an "Improper Input Validation" bug

At Coinbase, our number one priority is ensuring that we uphold our security commitments to our customers. On February 11, 2022, we received...

HERNDON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CRN–Iron Bow Technologies, an information technology solutions provider to government, commercial, education, and healthcare markets, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Iron Bow to its Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Security 100 category for 2022. CRN’s annual MSP 500 list identifies the leading service […]

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Choosing hot and cold crypto wallets is a matter of preference – how much do you value security versus functionality?

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced that it has compiled a list of free cybersecurity tools and services that can help organizations reduce risk and improve resilience.

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The National Security Agency (NSA) this week published recommendations regarding the use of specific passwords when looking to secure Cisco devices.

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Read Time: 5 minutes Blockchain technology with a network of nodes on which cryptocurrencies are built wouldn’t thrive without consensus mechanisms. These refer to methodologies used in the blockchain network to achieve agreement (consensus) and trust across a decentralized network of computers. Blockchain consensus mechanisms play a vital role in ensuring that the security and performance of the network …

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Copyright infringement, wash trading and other minor to major issues have put NFTs in a gray-zone. Continuous legal problems may potentially cause a number of unfavorable effects on the growth of NFTs as well as their future. Previously, the US-based NFT marketplace Cent officially suspended all transactions of blockchain-backed digital arts on its platform in [...]

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Details of Recently Patched VMware NSX Vulnerability Disclosed

VMware this week announced the availability of a patch for a high-severity vulnerability affecting the NSX Data Center for vSphere network virtualization product.

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A "potentially destructive actor" aligned with the government of Iran is actively exploiting the well-known Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware Horizon servers with ransomware. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne dubbed the group "TunnelVision" owing to their heavy reliance on tunneling tools, with overlaps in tactics observed to that of a broader group tracked under the moniker Phosphorus