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Secret Question Account Recovery Method Weak as Users Provide Fake Answers: Study

A new study by Google has found that secret questions are less secure than user-chosen passwords, and main reason why this is true may surprise you: it turns out users often don’t answer secret questions truthfully. Continue reading

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WordPress Parent Company Automattic Acquires WooCommerce Creator WooThemes

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, is acquiring WooThemes, the creator of the popular WordPress ecommerce plugin, WooCommerce. While the company hasn’t disclosed the financial details, Re/code is reporting that Automattic will pay $30 million in cash and stock to acquire WooThemes, making it its largest acquisition to date. Continue reading

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Google’s Wholesale Move To Cloud and Take On Security Makes Cloud Apps Enterprise-Friendly

Google is moving all of its internal corporate applications to a cloud model, reports The Wall Street Journal. So far, 90 percent of Google’s corporate applications have migrated. With that shift to cloud comes a shift in the way the company approaches and thinks about security. Gone is the idea of the cordoned-off enterprise. Continue reading

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Cloud Storage Company Founded by Kim Dotcom Fails to Go Public as Planned

Mega, the cloud storage company founded by Kim Dotcom, has failed to list on the New Zealand Stock Exchange about a year after it announced that it would achieve the listing through reverse takeover. Continue reading

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Researchers Find Vulnerability in WordPress Shopping Cart Plugin eShop

Another vulnerability has been found in a WordPress plug-in, this one an arbitrary variable overwrite, which was publicly disclosed Wednesday by High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab. The eShop WordPress Plugin version 6.3.11 was discovered on April 15 to have insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the “eshopcart” HTTP cookie. Continue reading

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