Critical Vulnerability Found in LayerSlider Plugin Installed on a Million WordPress Sites

A critical SQL injection vulnerability in the LayerSlider WordPress plugin allows attackers to extract sensitive information.

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft for Shoddy Security, Insincerity in Response to Chinese Hack

Cyber Safety Review Board, said “a cascade of errors” by Microsoft let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials.

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Earth Freybug Uses UNAPIMON for Unhooking Critical APIs

The adversarial collective is known to rely on a combination of living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) and custom malware to realize its goals. Also adopted are techniques like DLL hijacking and API unhooking.

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Google Cloud and CSA: 2024 will bring significant generative AI adoption in cybersecurity, driven by C-suite

The majority of orgs will incorporate generative AI into cybersecurity this year, and many security teams are already tinkering with it.Read More

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Attack Surface Management vs. Vulnerability Management

Attack surface management (ASM) and vulnerability management (VM) are often confused, and while they overlap, they’re not the same. The main difference between attack surface management and vulnerability management is in their scope: vulnerability management checks a list of known assets, while attack surface management assumes you have unknown assets and so begins with discovery. Let’s look at

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Missouri County Hit by Ransomware

Jackson County, Missouri, discloses ‘significant disruptions’ to IT systems, says ransomware attack likely at fault.

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Pixel Update Bulletin—April 2024 | Android Open Source Project

A total of 24 vulnerabilities leading to elevation of privilege (EoP) and information disclosure were addressed in various Pixel components, and another was resolved in Qualcomm components.

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Google to Delete Billions of Browser Records to Settle ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit

Google will delete billions of data records as part of a settlement for a lawsuit that accused the tech giant of improperly tracking the web-browsing habits of users who thought they were browsing the internet privately.

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This IT Career Kickstarter Bundle is An Extra 20% Off Through April 7th

Help your business by becoming your own IT expert. This week only, you can get The 2023 Ultimate IT Career Kickstarter Bundle for just $47.99 with promo code SECURE20.

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Google Patches Chrome Flaw That Earned Hackers $42,500 at Pwn2Own

Google pushes a new Chrome update to patch another zero-day vulnerability demonstrated at a hacking contest.

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