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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. Identify these problems by scanning your site for known vulnerabilities and hidden malware. Research and select a reliable WP security plugin to address these issues thoroughly.

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Modern Network Security: How Technology and Smart Practices are Reducing Risk

CIO Business Intelligence

With the shift to hybrid work, data, applications, intellectual property, and personal information is no longer stashed safely behind a corporate firewall. In this webcast, we’ll explore: The current trending threats facing networks, like authentication vulnerabilities, malware, phishing, and denial of service attacks.

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‘Extremely bad’ vulnerability found in widely used logging system

The Verge

If exploited, the vulnerability allows remote code execution on vulnerable servers, giving an attacker the ability to import malware that would completely compromise machines. The vulnerability is found in log4j, an open-source logging library used by apps and services across the internet.

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Global Supply Chain Cyberattack Underway via IT Monitoring Software

SecureWorld News

The software updates for your IT management tools arrive automatically and contain legitimate changes—but hidden inside the update is malware that gives hackers secret access to your network. Government and prominent security researchers, this type of attack is playing out right now on a global scale. And according to the U.S.

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2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report Reveals Cyberattacks Rising and Confidence Sinking

CTOvision

We should also mention that vendor sponsored research is absolutely influenced by the vendors. The particular vendors sponsoring this research are firms we know and love, but still bias does creep in. Here are key findings from the research : No shortage of cyberthreat challenges. Phishing, malware, and zero-days top of mind.

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Cybersecurity: Is AI Ready for Primetime In Cyber Defense?

CTOvision

However, AI research continued and went in and out of favor for years. The Inner Eye project is located at the Microsoft Research Center (MSRC) , where machines are being taught to learn the difference between healthy tissue and tumors. Analysts believe that most malware goes undetected from 100-250+ days. So how does this work?

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New Locky ransomware version can operate in offline mode

Network World

The creators of the widespread Locky ransomware have added a fallback mechanism in the latest version of their program for situations where the malware can't reach their command-and-control servers. Calling home to a server is important for ransomware programs that use public key cryptography.