Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites

The Hacker News Daily Updates The 5-Minute Companion for the Cybersecurity Conscious Employee Cyber-consciousness is not innate; it must be learned. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Feb 5, 2018 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 (Unpatched) Adobe Flash Player Zero-Day Exploit Spotted in the Wild Another reason to uninstall Adobe Flash Player—a new zero-day Flash Player exploit has reportedly been spotted in the wild by North Korean hackers. South Korea's Computer Emergency Response Team (KR-CERT) issued an alert Wednesday for a new Flash Player zero-day vulnerability that's being actively ... Read More Meltdown/Specter-based Malware Coming Soon to Devices Near You, Are You Ready? It has been few weeks since the details of the Spectre, and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities came out in public and researchers have discovered more than 130 malware samples trying to exploit these chip flaws. Spectre and Meltdown are security vulnerabilities disclosed by security researchers ... Read More The 5-Minute Companion for the Cybersecurity Conscious Employee Cyber-consciousness is not innate; it must be learned. 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