Sites running Jetpack are being infected via compromised WordPress.com credentials. The largest password ever with 8.4 billion passwords is used in credential stuffing attacks. Wordfence Threat Intelligence discloses new plugin vulnerabilities as well as a vulnerability at tsoHost. Data Breaches impact VW and EA, REvil compromises a nuclear weapons contractor, and TurboTax accounts are taken over. Ransomware surveys show conflicting results. Chrome and iOS Safari are both patched against 0-days.

Episode 122: Largest Password Dump in History Fuels Credential Stuffing Extravaganza

Over 30 million Dell devices are at risk for remote BIOS attacks due to four separate security bugs, which can have far reaching effects for enterprise organizations heavily invested in Dell devices. VMware Carbon Black App Control has been updated this week to fix a critical-severity vulnerability that allows authentication bypass. Antivirus creator John McAffee dies in a Spanish jail, and a bug found by a security researcher in Atlassian’s authentication could have led to a supply chain attack.&nbsp; A security update is planned for Google Drive that could break shared links. And a number of organizations were affected by security breaches, including the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Episode 123: Over 30 Million Dell Devices at Risk for Remote BIOS Attacks

Security researchers accidentally leaked zero-day exploit code for a new Windows bug, now called PrintNightmare, while easily exploitable vulnerabilities in the ProfilePress plugin, previously called WP User Avatar, were patched quickly. An unprotected cloud database containing over 814 million DreamHost user records was found online. Google Chrome is getting a HTTPS-only feature in an upcoming version, and two bugs, one of which is a zero-day, are leading to attackers fighting over control of internet-connected Western Digital My Book Live devices.

Episode 124: PrintNightmare 0Day Exploit Accidentally Leaked Online

A critical SQL injection vulnerability was discovered in WooCommerce, the most popular e-Commerce plugin used by over 5 million WordPress sites. The WordPress.org team pushed a forced security update ensuring that over 90 versions of WooCommerce were patched. REvil ransomware gang targeted a zero-day vulnerability in Kaseya, used by many in the banking industry, before going dark. A new SolarWinds zero-day was found in their Serv-U FTP platform. WordPress 5.8 will be released next week with many new features, as well as removing support for Internet Explorer 11. Microsoft released a number of patches, including those patching 3 zero-day vulnerabilities.

Episode 124: PrintNightmare 0Day Exploit Accidentally Leaked Online

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