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Researchers have helped patch a high-severity-rated security flaw in a popular WordPress plugin, which could be exploited to completely wipe and reset any vulnerable WordPress website.

Water and wastewater (WWS) facilities are under attack, along with the recent increase in critical infrastructure cyberattacks. A joint statement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) details recent attacks and what WWS systems can do to bolster their cyber defense.

Bonnie Michelman, Executive Director of Police, Security and Outside Services at Mass General and winner of the 2021 SIA Insightful Practitioner Award, spoke about the hospital's response to COVID-19 and the lessons she and the security team learned from the pandemic during a talk at the Security Industry Association (SIA) Securing New Ground conference.

The new Georgia State University online graduate certificate program in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems can be completed in 21 weeks via virtual coursework.

A new Thales Global Cloud Security Study reports that 40% of organizations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months.  

Security researcher Jeremiah Fowler and the Website Planet team discovered an unsecured database containing 886,521,320 records.

A Netenrich survey found that 83% of companies would suffer business damage during the first 24 hours of an outage and thereafter.

In the Leadership Keynote speech at the Security Industry Association (SIA) Securing New Ground conference, Intel Vice President and General Manager for Client Security Strategy and Initiatives Tom Garrison outlined how and why supply chain security needs to be seen as both a physical and cybersecurity priority.

Security professionals across all sectors are still dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The International Bar Association (IBA) COVID-19 Task Force has released guidance on how officials in travel, manufacturing, healthcare and other sectors can best continue to fight COVID-19 on a global scale.

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