Attackers Exploit Gravity SMTP Plugin Flaw to Harvest Valuable WordPress Data

Vulnerable WordPress plugin iterations leak API keys, secrets, tokens, server information, and other data.
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Professional Athletes and Wearables

I haven’t thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables.

Wearables present serious privacy issues for “Average Joe” consumers, who are entrusting tech companies to safely store and protect their biometric data. Imagine the stakes for a professional athlete, whose entire livelihood could be affected by a single biometric data point. To give one of many realistic hypotheticals: a basketball player has a terrible game, and the coach wonders if they showed up to the gym hungover. The coach has access to the player’s wearable data, and checks to see when they went to sleep, as well as what their heart rate looked like during the night. Should the player have been out partying before a game? No. Should the coach be able to surveil them? Definitely not…

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Browser Bugs, EDR Killers, TV Botnet, OpenBSD Flaw, Android Trojan, and More

It’s Monday again.

This week’s threat list looks painfully familiar: abused integrations, fake tools, poisoned websites, ransomware crews trying to shut down security tools, and mobile malware asking for way too much control.

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New Exploit Bypasses Apple’s Boot Defenses, Affects Millions of iPhones

The vulnerability exploited by the Usbliter8 exploit cannot be patched and a PoC exploit has been released by researchers.
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