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Malicious Plugins On Tens Of Thousands Of WordPress Websites

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have identified malicious plugins on tens of thousands of WordPress websites. Have you updated your WordPress this week? I have mentioned SO many times, UPDATES are the first leg of your defense against malware and other malicious online attacks in WordPress and ANY other CMS. The results of an […]

Gravatar Data Leak Exposed 167 Million Profiles

In October 2020, a security researcher named Carlo Di Dato discovered a technique to exploit a vulnerability of the Gravatar online avatar service to collect data about its users. Although the available data was theoretically public, as Di Dato warned the community that “it’s unlikely users know their data can be accessed by querying Gravatar […]