Vulnerability found in WordPress plugin with over 3 million installations https://ift.tt/Nfl5Fpg Updates have been released for UpdraftPlus, a WordPress plugin with over 3 million installations, after a vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Marc Montpas. In a blog post, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team explained that the vulnerability allows any logged-in user, including subscriber-level users, […]
Open Source Windows app OpenNetMeter monitors network and data usage https://ift.tt/2jx8zqc OpenNetMeter is a free open source program for Microsoft Windows devices to monitor network traffic and data usage. The current version of the program monitors overall traffic on the device and data usage of individual applications. OpenNetMeter does not need to be installed […]
Disaster recovery is critical for business continuity https://ift.tt/7zhHryg Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) efforts go hand in hand in this digitized world of ours. The former is focused on maintaining business operations rolling despite various problems, the latter is focused keeping the IT side of things running: the network, the servers, the data. […]
Cybersecurity: Many managers just don’t want to understand the risks https://ift.tt/MOSC7DkuY Senior managers are putting businesses at risk of cyberattacks and data breaches because they don’t understand cybersecurity issues and, in some cases, don’t even want to learn about the dangers. According to research by cybersecurity company Trend Micro, just half of IT decision makers […]
UEFI firmware vulnerabilities affecting Fujitsu, Intel and more discovered https://ift.tt/cGhRVjYbF Researchers have discovered 23 “high-impact vulnerabilities” affecting any vendors that adopted Independent BIOS Developers (IBV) code into their Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware. Binarly explained the vulnerabilities in a blog post this week, confirming that “all these vulnerabilities are found in several of the […]
Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers https://ift.tt/qLftJ7wIh Why OneModel? OneModel aims to build a diagramming tool optimized for software engineers. With this focus, we can bring stellar experiences directed to software engineering use cases. In this beta we support creating architecture diagrams. As we progress you can expect support for all types […]
Update now: Samba prior to 4.13.17 hit with remote root code execution bug https://ift.tt/NkLKB4jhz Samba has fixed a vulnerability in all versions of its server prior to version 4.13.17 that allowed for a remote actor to execute code as root, thanks to an out-of-bounds heap read write vulnerability. “The specific flaw exists within the parsing […]
QNAP users still struggling with Deadbolt ransomware after forced firmware updates https://ift.tt/3HdMSRd QNAP Network Attached Storage (NAS) device users are still struggling to address a range of issues connected to the Deadbolt ransomware, which began infecting devices earlier this week. On Tuesday, QNAP NAS users flocked to Reddit and QNAP forums to report ransomware infections. […]
Check your SPF records: Wide IP ranges undo email security and make for tasty phishes https://ift.tt/3Fjy5mc Image: Can I Phish/Sebastian Salla You’ve done the right thing by your organisation and made sure that DMARC and SPF (sender policy framework) records are set in an effort to reduce email spoofing, but all that good work could […]
Wireshark creator joins Sysdig to extend it to cloud security https://ift.tt/3FpM61V If you’re a real network administrator, you know and love open source Wireshark. For over 15-years, it’s been the tool that professionals use for network traffic protocol analysis. Nothing else even comes close. Now, Sysdig, the container and cloud security company, has hired Gerald […]
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