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Read this post to learn about the benefits and challenges, as well as ways financial organizations can keep their operations secure in the cloud.

WooCommerce is a free eCommerce plugin for WordPress. It has been downloaded over 1 million times and over 30% of all online stores are now powered by WooCommerce. I recently discovered that WooCommerce is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This XSS vulnerability is caused because the WooCommerce tax rates setting incorrectly processes user-supplied data. Remote attackers are tricking WooCommerce administrators into uploading a malicious CSV file that claims to provide required tax rate data for a particular country or region..

To survive, Macro downloaders have to constantly develop new techniques for evading sandbox environments and anti-virus applications. Recently, Fortinet spotted a malicious document macro designed to bypass Microsoft Windows’ UAC security and execute Fareit, an information stealing malware, with high system privilege. SPAM This malicious document is distributed by a SPAM email.  As part of its social engineering strategy, it is presented in the context of someone being interested in a product. Fig.1 SPAM with the malicious…

Read this post to learn more about internal segmentation firewalls and how they assist the healthcare industry in keeping patient data safe.   This new reality is largely responsible for driving the development of a new class of security tools, known as internal segmentation firewalls (ISFWs.) ISFWs extend the functionality…

For years now, we’ve been hearing about “smart cities.” Cities with the ability to leverage innovative technology, and automation to optimize resources and improve services for their citizens, with the ultimate goal of making our lives better. These smart cities are no longer a distant dream of the future – they are happening now. Unfortunately, without sufficient cybersecurity, their ultra-connected nature can make these dream cities a nightmare, as the recent hack of San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency…

Attack methods and breaching techniques are constantly evolving. Which means that finding the elusive talent to overcome present challenges is only part of the solution. Sure, we know the tried and true breach methods. But what about the attacks we don’t yet know? If the method is unknown, then so is the required response. The talent shortfall, therefore, is about much more than just a limited technical pool.