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Steps to Take If Your WordPress Site Is Hacked

SecureWorld News

Scan for malware Numerous WordPress breaches involve backdoors, enabling attackers to bypass authentication and quietly carry out malicious activities. Clean up the sitemap If an attacker has tampered with your sitemap XML file, search engines are likely to notice the irregularity, potentially leading to your site being blacklisted.

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Four questions for a casino InfoSec director

CIO Business Intelligence

Recent cyberattacks at MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have put the spotlight on cybersecurity practices at casinos – and the importance of educating employees on social engineering tactics. As learned from recent cyberattacks, user education has become a critical component to protecting against these threats as well.

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Understanding the Essential Pillars of Phishing Mitigation

SecureWorld News

These attacks can come from malicious instructions, social engineering, or authentication attacks, as well as heavy network traffic. The most common root causes for initial breaches stem from social engineering and unpatched software, as those account for more than 90% of phishing attacks.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. One way or another, the fact persists that search engine abuse can amplify the problem.

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Balancing Resource Sharing in Multi-tenant Architectures with Single-tenant Services

KineticData

For example, the Kinetic Platform’s Workflow Engine, which allows extensive customization through user-developed integrations, employs a single-tenant service called “Task.” Ensuring unique authentication credentials and provisioning separate databases for each tenant creates the foundation for a secure, isolated environment.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

CTOvision

Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Defense Daily’s 2014 Open Architecture Summit, … Read more on Defense Daily Network (subscription).

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Nmap security scanner gets new scripts, performance boosts

Network World

New features in Nmap 7.40 include Npcap 0.78r5, for adding driver signing updates to work with Windows 10 Anniversary Update; faster brute-force authentication cracking; and new scripts for Nmap Script Engine, the project’s maintainer Fyodor wrote on the Nmap mailing list.