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 […]
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50 B.C. chiropractors refuse to remove misleading claims from websites, face possible discipline
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.
Hack on 8 adult websites exposes oodles of intimate user data
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 […]
The Top 21 Kids Websites to Teach Responsibility and Life Skills
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 […]
Reps. Khanna and Ratcliffe: It’s Time to Modernize Government Websites
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
Permanent LTE exploits steer users to rogue websites
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 will soon reveal exactly which websites are tracking YOU
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 […]
Genealogy websites identify rape suspect who eluded police for 40 years
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, […]
Trump signs bill to shut down websites that facilitate prostitution
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 […]
uTorrent bugs let websites control your computer and steal your downloads
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 […]