This week started off with the disclosure of three vulnerabilities in WordPress. WordPence declared that vulnerabilities affecting a community plugin called Ultimate Member have been patched. These vulnerabilities were critical & severe & could’ve allowed unauthorized users to gain administrator-level…
Recent news from Penetration Testing Company has disclosed that MariaDB has a vulnerability that could put data in jeopardy. The said vulnerability is an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability that was extremely simple to exploit. The vulnerability is scary. It allows…
Bengaluru-based e-commerce grocery store, Big Basket admits of a potential data breach that might have happened recently. The attackers may have access to the personal information for up to 2 crore Big Basket users. The data breach was first brought…
Juniper Research has recently released a study that estimates global IoT connections to increase at a growth rate of 107%. The estimated number of connections by 2025 are 36.8 billion, rising from the 17.7 billion in 2020. The research also…
It hasn’t been long since we reported Dr Reddy’s falling prey to a ransomware attack & isolating all their data centres. Not even 2 weeks since the incident has passed, another pharmaceutical giant of the nation, Lupin has reported a…
The global leader in enterprise security has announced new data. This has come out after the company did instrumental scanning of the network perimeter of up to 3,514 corporate information systems. The company declared that data disclosed that most of…
A security researcher, Samy Kamkar has recently revealed a technique capable enough to bypass firewall protection & access any TCP /UDP services of the victim’s machine. The technique Network Address Translation (NAT) Slipstreaming provides a way for attackers to victim…
Not long after fixing the first zero-day vulnerability, Google Chrome has now fixed another zero-day vulnerability in its system. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2020-16009. Google has notified that they know of it being exploited in the wild. Along with…
Vulnerabilities have been discovered recently in the popular medical records management portal, OpenEMR. These vulnerabilities if left unattended would have renowned the medical practice management application control to the attackers. Of all the bugs, the one in the Patient Portal…
WordPress is calling this last WordPress update ‘short-cycle security & maintenance release’ before the critical 5.6 release version of the software. Recently, WordPress released the latest version of its web publishing software, 5.5.2. With it, they have also tackled 10…
