Security Affairs

JANUARY 19, 2025

The issue allows authenticated users (Subscriber-level or higher) to exploit a missing capability check, exposing sensitive data, consuming service limits, and accessing internal services, including cloud app metadata. The vulnerability impacts plugin version up to 2.8.1. ” reads the advisory published by WordPress.

Consumer Services 127

Consumer Services Authentication Hacking 127

Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media.

Social Engineering 293

Social Engineering Phishing Accountability Engineering 293

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Leaks, breaches and hacks will continue to challenge enterprises until one very big problem is solved: access management. The study also revealed that 94% of IT professionals say their organizations’ security policies around access management was influenced by breaches of consumer services in the last 12 months.

Consumer Services 115

Consumer Services Authentication Passwords Technology 115

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings.

Cyber threats 203

Cyber threats Cyber Insurance Threat Detection Cybersecurity 203

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Username and password logins emerged as the go-to way to control access to network servers, business applications and Internet-delivered consumer services. Just ask Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, whose Twitter account was hijacked this summer in what’s known as a “SIM-swap” hack.

Passwords 164

Passwords Authentication Data breaches Internet 164

SecureList

MAY 12, 2021

There is, of course, a documented porosity between the ransomware ecosystem and other cybercrime domains such as carding or point-of-sale (PoS) hacking. But this is also an area where there is more than meets the eye, because of the diversity of the ransomware ecosystem.

Ransomware 145

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cybercrime 145