Security

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..

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

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…

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…

What if the data and security elements across an organization’s various cloud environments were well integrated, cohesive and coherent, like a seamlessly woven fabric? Such an approach would allow companies to see, control, integrate and manage the security of their data across the hybrid cloud, thereby enabling them to take better advantage of the economics and elasticity provided by a highly distributed cloud environment.

Financial services organizations are shifting applications to the cloud, seeking the efficiencies and cost reductions this move holds. However, with cybercriminals eager to get their hands on financial data, security is paramount – making it more important than ever to vet cloud security providers.

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.