Collaborate Disseminate
From Sean Spicer’s WHOIS data and the pornstar neural face recognition network to Google turning pixelated faces back into real ones, and more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
From Sean Spicer’s WHOIS data and the pornstar neural face recognition network to Google turning pixelated faces back into real ones, and more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 28 stories of the week
From remote Facebook login of stolen laptop user and the private photos exposed by women’s sex club to Facebook’s security boost, and more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 26 stories of the week
From knowing the risks of Amazon Alexa and Google Home and the easily cracked Android lock to the world’s favorite email server, and more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 27 stories of the week
From the sysadmin sued for wiping school’s Gmail login to the end of Patch Tuesday to Trump’s new cybersecurity advisor, and much more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 31 stories of the week
From Amazon phishing scams and the bank email slip-up that leaked 60,000 account details to the Mongo DB databases held to ransom, and more! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 27 stories of the week
From the ‘overblown’ Russian hacking claims and the free 3G Whatsapp scam to the best company name ever, catch up with the latest news! Continue reading Monday review – the hot 25 stories of the week
The Chet Chat podccast is back from December vacation with the first episde of 2017. Enjoy… Continue reading Big breaches, bad blunders – and good news, too [Chet Chat Podcast 256]
From what GDPR means for you and Uber and Apple Maps location tracking to the international cybersecurity agreement ‘meltdown’, and more! Continue reading Weekly review – the hot 13 stories of the week
PHPMailer, one of the most used classes for sending emails from within PHP, has a serious vulnerability in versions less than 5.2.18 (current version). The security researcher [Dawid Golunski] just published a limited advisory stating that PHPMailer suffers from a critical flaw that might lead an attacker to achieve remote code execution in the context of the web server user. PHPMailer is used by several open-source projects, among them are: WordPress, Drupal, 1CRM, SugarCRM, Yii and Joomla. A fix has been issued and PHPMailer is urging all users to upgrade their systems.
To trigger this vulnerability (CVE-2016-10033) it seems that …read more
Continue reading Santa Knows If Your Contact Form Uses PHPMailer < 5.2.18