As the retirement countdown for the current version of PCI is now less than six months, a new standard for password length, complexity, and change frequency may create some risk. Valid credentials have become a very hot item, as threat actors realize the low risk and high value of simply becoming an Initial Access Broker (rather than performing an entire cyber attack themselves).
With its wide use and trusted state among Wordpress developers and website admins, a new campaign impersonating the website security brand could put hundreds of millions of websites at risk. Today, it's estimated there are over 810 million websites that run on Wordpress. One of Wordpress’ most used plugins is Wordfence – a security platform made specifically for the website platform.
Calico has recently introduced a powerful new policy recommendation engine that enables DevOps, SREs, and Kubernetes operators to automatically generate Calico policies to implement namespace isolation and improve the security posture of their clusters.
The Fireblocks cryptography research team has uncovered BitForge – a series of zero-day vulnerabilities in some of the most widely adopted implementations of multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, including GG-18, GG-20, and Lindell17.
This vulnerability allows an attacker to extract a full private key from a wallet implementing Lindell17 2PC protocol, by extracting a single bit in every signature attempt (256 in total). Coinbase WaaS, Zengo and other libraries have been patched.
This newfound vulnerability allows an attacker to extract a full private key from any wallet using the GG18 and GG20 protocols. More than 10 wallets and libraries have been found vulnerable, including Binance custody.
Imagine being named XYZ in a crowd of other XYZs – a purposeless name that creates confusion and does not communicate a purpose, adding to the cognitive pile of everyone’s day-to-day tasks. Similarly, Active Directory groups created by users need to have logical names so that current and future users do not find themselves stuck in a pickle.
