WordPress is the world’s favorite software for publishing and e-commerce on the internet. This makes it a lucrative target for hackers and criminals. A range of software tools and services is available for securing WordPress sites, but not all sites are protected and sometimes hackers are simply one step ahead. … Read >
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Top 10 most exploited software security holes hide in office documents
People who work with open source software tend to be concerned about vulnerabilities in WordPress, Java and other popular products, but criminals and spies who want direct access inside a business or government organization prefer exploiting security holes in office documents. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) … Read >
Criminals have discovered a way to skim credit card data from online stores
The annual hyperactive shopping season starts from Black Friday in late November and will continue to early January. News of hacked online stores that leak customers’ credit card and personal data to criminals are not welcomed by e-commerce merchants just now. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what is going on. Here is … Read >
Everything you always wanted to know about ransomware
Ransomware is a relatively new type of online crime where criminals remotely hijack a computer, and demand ransom to return the computer to the owner. The scheme usually works so that criminals, located wherever they have internet access, manage to install a piece of software into a target computer. The … Read >