Critical Flaw in Grammarly Spell Checker Could Let Attackers Steal Your Data

The Hacker News Daily Updates 6 GDPR Compliance Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them The GDPR is a complex regulation. And on the path to compliance, there will be unanticipated roadblocks. The good news is, you can find your way through them. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Feb 6, 2018 Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware is Spreading Rapidly Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims' devices to mine cryptocurrency. Just last month, Kaspersky researchers spotted fake antivirus and ... Read More Critical Flaw in Grammarly Spell Checker Could Let Attackers Steal Your Data A critical vulnerability discovered in the Chrome and Firefox browser extension of the grammar-checking software Grammarly inadvertently left all 22 million users' accounts, including their personal documents and records, vulnerable to remote hackers. According to Google Project Zero researcher ... Read More British Hacker 'Lauri Love' will not be extradited to US, Court Rules British citizen and hacker Lauri Love, who was accused of hacking into United States government websites, will not be extradited to stand trial in the U.S., the High Court of England and Wales ruled today. Love, 33, is facing a 99-year prison sentence in the United States for allegedly carrying ... Read More How to Mitigate the Threat Cryptocurrency Mining Poses to Enterprise Security The growing popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is generating curiosity—and concern—among security specialists. Crypto mining software has been found on user machines, often installed by botnets. Organizations need to understand the risks posed by this software and what actions, if ... Read More Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites A simple yet serious application-level denial of service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress CMS platform that could allow anyone to take down most WordPress websites even with a single machine—without hitting with a massive amount of bandwidth, as required in network-level DDoS ... Read More How to Blend Backup and High Availability Backup and high availability are both essential forms of protection that fulfill different roles within a data protection strategy. So which type of protection is right for different systems? Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India