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Enlarge (credit: Victorgrigas) Millions of sites that run the Drupal content management system run the risk of being hijacked until they’re patched against a vulnerability that allows hackers to remotely execute malicious code, managers of the open source project warned Wednesday. CVE-2019-6340, as the flaw is tracked, stems from a failure to sufficiently validate user […]
Fifty B.C. chiropractors have refused to remove misleading claims from their websites and Facebook pages and are now under investigation by their regulatory body.
Enlarge / One of the hacked websites, wifelovers.com, as it appeared on October 12. (credit: Internet Archive) A recent hack of eight poorly secured adult websites has exposed megabytes of personal data that could be damaging to the people who shared pictures and other highly intimate information on the online message boards. Included in the […]
Letting your children navigate the internet on their own is like throwing them into the Wild West for them to fend for themselves. The internet can be a dangerous place for children if they are on the wrong websites. We all want to protect our children, so knowing the websites that are safe for our […]
Opinion: Two Members of Congress argue that government websites must modernize to meet the needs of today’s citizens. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b369eae440082328b06d023/master/pass/fed_outdated-FINAL.jpg
LTE was theoretically supposed to fix the security holes baked into earlier wireless standards, but it isn’t completely immune. An international team of researchers has discovered a attack methods (nicknamed aLTEr) that takes advantage of inherent flaws in LTE to direct users to hostile websites. An active exploit uses the lack of integrity checks in […]
Facebook has revealed it is building a new privacy control called “clear history” to allow users to delete browsing data. The social network says it’s introducing this feature to allow everyone to have more information and control over the data Facebook receives from other websites and apps that use their services. The new feature is […]
Enlarge / Mug shot of Joseph James DeAngelo. (credit: Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department) For over four decades, a suspect in more than 50 extremely sadistic rapes and 12 murders eluded police in Northern California. On Tuesday, he was arrested after investigators tracked him down using online genealogical databases that contained genetic information from a relative, […]
Enlarge / President Donald Trump, before signing the “Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act” at the White House. (credit: Getty Images | Chris Kleponis) President Donald Trump today signed the controversial FOSTA/SESTA bill into law, paving the way for more law enforcement actions against websites that facilitate prostitution. Websites started shutting […]
Enlarge / A screenshot of one of the uTorrent PoC exploits in action. (credit: Google Project Zero) Two versions of uTorrent, one of the Internet’s most widely used BitTorrent apps, are vulnerable to a host of easy-to-exploit vulnerabilities that allow attackers to execute code, access downloaded files, and snoop on download histories, a Google Project […]
