4 Reasons Password Policies Are Vital for WordPress Users

https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/4-reasons-password-policies-vital-wordpress-users/For every account you set up you should use a unique and difficult password. That’s a given, but you’d be surprised at how many people don’t give a second though to password security. This means that, in many cases, the safest approach is to not leave password safety up to your users. Instead, you can […] More info: https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/4-reasons-password-policies-vital-wordpress-users/

Podcast Episode 21: New Plugin Vulns Exploited in the Wild, an Extortion Scam and the CBP Data Breach

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/06/podcast-episode-21-plugin-vuln-exploited-wild-extortion-scam-cbp-breach/ This week, we discuss active exploitation of a plugin vulnerability in the wild, an extortion scam hitting numerous website owners, exposure of Industrial Control Systems to attackers as well as a CBP breach affecting travelers in the United States. We also talk about an email server vulnerability and what to do in a SIM […] More info: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/06/podcast-episode-21-plugin-vuln-exploited-wild-extortion-scam-cbp-breach/

VMSA-2018-0011 Revisited

Greetings from the VMware Security Response Center! It has come to our attention that a previously resolved vulnerability identified by CVE-2018-6961 which affected VMware SD-WAN Edge (Velocloud) prior to v3.1.2 has been reported to be included as one of multiple injection methods for a newly discovered variant of the Mirai malware. Unit 42 has a […]The post VMSA-2018-0011 Revisited appeared first on VMware Security & Compliance Blog. More info: https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2019/06/vmsa-2018-0011-revisited.html

FTP Logs Used to Determine Attack Vector

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/UwzT75JvuqY/ftp-logs-used-to-determine-attack-vector.html Logs can be very useful because they are a record of what was done by whom. They are especially useful when you need to find out more on how a website has been compromised. Since our job at Sucuri is to clean website malware, we don’t have any access to logs, or what we […] More info: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/UwzT75JvuqY/ftp-logs-used-to-determine-attack-vector.html

Stored XSS in MyBB

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/1lzjx5MFA-g/stored-xss-in-mybb.html The open source PHP forum software myBB recently published a new update, version 1.8.21. This is a security release fixing a Stored XSS vulnerability in the private messaging and post modules. What Are the Risks? Unpatched websites could allow bad actors to send booby-trapped posts or private messages to users. These would execute rogue […] More info: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/1lzjx5MFA-g/stored-xss-in-mybb.html

Stored XSS in MyBB

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/1lzjx5MFA-g/stored-xss-in-mybb.html The open source PHP forum software myBB recently published a new update, version 1.8.21. This is a security release fixing a Stored XSS vulnerability in the private messaging and post modules. What Are the Risks? Unpatched websites could allow bad actors to send booby-trapped posts or private messages to users. These would execute rogue […] More info: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/1lzjx5MFA-g/stored-xss-in-mybb.html
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