WordPress announced over the weekend that they were pausing plugin updates and initiating a force reset on plugin author passwords in order to prevent additional website compromises due to the ongoing Supply Chain Attack on WordPress plugins. Supply Chain Attack Hackers have been attacking plugins directly at the source using password credentials exposed in previous … Read more
WordPress plugins continue to be under attack by hackers using stolen credentials (from other data breaches) to gain direct access to plugin code. What makes these attacks of particular concern is that these supply chain attacks can sneak in because the compromise appears to users as plugins with a normal update. Supply Chain Attack The … Read more
Think about how much of the world relies on the internet. The government, military, academia, health care industry, and private industry not only collect, process, and store unprecedented amounts of data in cyberspace — they also rely on critical infrastructure systems in cyberspace to perform operations and deliver services. An attack on this infrastructure could … Read more
OpenAI has resolved periodic outages, as detailed in the company’s latest incident report, which reflected an abnormal traffic pattern due to a DDoS attack earlier today. Screenshot from OpenAI, November 2023 OpenAI implemented a fix for the incident yesterday and was monitoring periodic outages. FYI: We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal … Read more
