High Severity Vulnerability Leads to Closure of Plugin with Over 100,000 Installations

On April 1, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered a stored Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Contact Form 7 Datepicker, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. As the plugin developer’s github page indicated that the plugin was no longer being maintained, we contacted the WordPress plugins team with our disclosure, and […] More info: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/04/high-severity-vulnerability-leads-to-closure-of-plugin-with-over-100000-installations/

Safety and Security While Video Conferencing with Zoom

With much of the world shifting to working from home due to public health concerns with COVID-19, video conferencing is booming. Businesses, and even schools, are turning to platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google hangouts and other technologies to stay connected. Zoom has come under fire in recent days due to security issues with […] More info: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/04/safety-and-security-while-video-conferencing/

Minimum Version of TLS 1.2 Required for FIPS Endpoints by March 31, 2021

Initial Publication Date: 2020/03/31 11:15AM PDT AWS is updating all AWS Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints to a minimum Transport Layer Security (TLS) version of 1.2 across all AWS Regions by March 31, 2021. This update will revoke the ability to use TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on all FIPS endpoints. No other AWS endpoints will be affected by this change. When connecting to an AWS service endpoint, your client provides its TLS minimum and TLS maximum version. The AWS service More info: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2020-001/
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