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Image: Jan Huber President Donald Trump signed today an executive order barring US power grid entities from buying and installing electrical equipment that has been manufactured outside the US. Trump said that “foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in the United States bulk-power system.” The US president said that successful attacks against the […] More
Image: Mozilla Browser maker Mozilla is working on a new service called Private Relay that generates unique aliases to hide a user’s email address from advertisers and spam operators when filling in online forms. The service entered testing last month and is currently in a closed beta, with a public beta currently scheduled for later […] More
One of the most important security precautions you can take with any online service is to turn on two-factor authentication, or 2FA. (Some services refer to 2FA as multi-factor authentication or two-step verification, but the underlying technology is the same.) With this extra protection enabled, anyone who wants to sign on to a service on […] More
Small businesses have been facing a mountain of problems since the coronavirus outbreak took hold of the world’s economy and shifted most people to working from home. Millions of small businesses around the world, which previously had no experience dealing with cybersecurity, suddenly had to deal with a deluge of new issues, ranging from which […] More
Enterprise software giant Oracle published an urgent security alert last night, urging companies that run WebLogic servers to install the latest patches the company released in mid-April. Oracle says it received reports of attempts to exploit CVE-2020-2883, a vulnerability in its WebLogic enterprise product. WebLogic is a Java-based middleware server that sits between a front-facing […] More
The developers of the open source SaltStack Salt management framework, used in data centers and cloud servers, have warned users to update their builds following the discovery of critical remote code execution vulnerabilities. Researchers from F-Secure disclosed the bugs on Thursday. Tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, the vulnerabilities have been issued high-severity ratings and are […] More
Children across the country will have the opportunity to crack codes, fix security flaws and examine the trails left behind by cyber criminals as part of a new learning experience they can take part in from home. The initiative from the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS), the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the […] More
The Ninja Forms WordPress plugin harbored a severe security flaw that could be used for website takeover through the creation of new administrator accounts. Ninja Forms is a drag-and-drop contact form creator for websites running on the WordPress Content Management System (CMS). The plugin accounts for over one million active installations. The Wordfence Threat Intelligence […] More
