Critical WooCommerce Payments Plugin Flaw Patched for 500,000+ WordPress Sites

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:48:00
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Dan

Patches have been released for a critical security flaw impacting the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress, which is installed on over 500,000 websites.

The flaw, if left unresolved, could enable a bad actor to gain unauthorized admin access to impacted stores, the company said in an advisory...

Fake ChatGPT Chrome Browser Extension Caught Hijacking Facebook Accounts

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:43:00
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Dan

Google has stepped in to remove a bogus Chrome browser extension from the official Web Store that masqueraded as OpenAI's ChatGPT service to harvest Facebook session cookies and hijack the accounts.

The "ChatGPT For Google" extension, a trojanized version of a legitimate open source browser add-on...

LastPass Hack: Engineer's Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:37:00
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Dan

The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date.

The embattled password management service last week revealed how unidentified actors leveraged i...

New release of Firefly III version 6 available 🍻

Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:25:00
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Dan

For Arch Linux users it's basically just running this script but just in case back up your database first.

Changelog

Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels Keep Companies in the Clear and Consumers in the Dark

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:55:00
1 minute, 15 seconds
Dan

Few people stop to question the accuracy of nutrition labels on packaged food. But food labeling wasn’t always so trustworthy. Companies found it relatively easy to make false and misleading health claims on food packaging until the U.S. Supreme Court cracked down on the practice in 1973, and the U....