WordPress core contributor proposes treating Google FLoC as a security vulnerability

Cyber National cyber director backs new Bureau of Cyber Statistics By Chris Riotta Aug 05, 2021 The White House is still considering whether to support the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s recommendation to establish a Bureau of Cyber Statistics, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said on Monday, while stressing the urgent need for the federal…

Axonius Asset management platform maker Axonius has secured $100 million in private funding to support the company’s efforts to update its cybersecurity portfolio, Reuters reported Monday. The funding round led by private equity firm Stripes was made at Axonius’ valuation of $1.2 billion and brings the latter’s cumulative funding to $195 million. Dean Sysman, cofounder…

Fancy Product Designer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 17,000 sites, has been discovered to contain a critical file upload vulnerability that’s being actively exploited in the wild to upload malware onto sites that have the plugin installed. Wordfence’s threat intelligence team, which discovered the flaw, said it reported the issue to the plugin’s developer…

Application Security , Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime Security Agency Will Use Bugcrowd, EnDyna for Platform Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 8, 2021     The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is preparing to expand its vulnerability research and disclosure program, which is now mandatory for nearly all executive branch agencies within the federal…

Branches of insurance giant AXA based in Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and the Philippines have been struck by a ransomware cyber attack. As seen by BleepingComputer yesterday, the Avaddon ransomware group claimed on their leak site that they had stolen 3 TB of sensitive data from AXA’s Asian operations. Additionally, BleepingComputer observed an ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)…

Moody’s Corporation and BitSight announced a collaborative effort aimed at helping the companies’ customers identify and quantify cybersecurity risk and potential for financial exposure, according to a Monday (Sept. 13) press release. As part of the joint effort, Moody’s will invest $250 million in BitSight, a cybersecurity ratings platform. In turn, BitSight will purchase VisibleRisk,…