How Will Cyber Threats Impact the Beijing Winter Olympics?
While the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics were hardly a financial success (estimated by some to have cost $30 billion), there was one area in which it excelled: cybersecurity. How...
How Decryption of Network Traffic Can Improve Security
Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing.
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80K Retail WooCommerce Sites Exposed by Plugin XSS Bug
The Variation Swatches plugin security flaw lets attackers with low-level permissions tweak important settings on e-commerce sites to inject malicious scripts.
The plugin “Variation Swatches for WooCommerce,” installed across 80,000...
Blockchain security firm CertiK approaches unicorn status following $80M raise
Global blockchain security firm CertiK has concluded an $80 million investment round backed by some of crypto’s biggest venture funds, putting the company on track to reach the lofty...
Attacker Sentenced in Multimillion-Dollar SIM Hijacking Scheme
Officials have sentenced a sixth member of international hacking group The Community in association with a multimillion-dollar SIM hijacking conspiracy, the Deptartment of Justice reports.Garrett Endicott, 22, was the...
HP Issues Firmware Updates for Printer Product Vulnerabilities
HP Inc. has issued firmware updates for multiple security vulnerabilities that affect more than 150 models of its multifunction printer (MFP) products.
These issues are not particularly easy to exploit. However,...
