Ransomware actors turn attention to holding websites hostage
Ransomware actors are looking for new targets according to security vendor WordFence. That target would appear to be WordPress-powered websites…
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How secure is your localhost domain? Hint – it may not be what it says
According to the t-shirt ‘There’s no place like 127.0.0.1’ but one Google engineer queries just how secure this home is.
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Is the wildly popular WordPress a conduit to compromise?
SC Media UK asked security professionals, and a long established web developer, about WordPress being such a conduit to compromise…
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Can we encrypt the web while giving governments a backdoor to snoop?
The Internet Society calls for stronger encryption to protect web users, but is it technically feasible to also provide backdoors?
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Giuliani (still) Down!
The Giuliani Security website is still down, 48 hours after Donald Trump announced Rudy Giuliani will be his cybersecurity advisor
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Developer raises concerns about MD5 hashing for WordPress security
Plugin developer Wordfence raises concerns about security, but is there a bigger problem with the continued use of MD5 hashing?
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WordPress security update: go hard or go home
WordPress is popular. with a CMS market share of just about 60%. So get your WordPress security hardening sorted out!
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