If your WordPress has automatically installed an update, this is the retroactive PSA on why WordPress has urgently issued one. If it hasn’t, consider it an urgent PSA. There is a vulnerability in WordPress Core, disclosed July 17, affecting 6.9.0–6.9.4 and 7.0.0–7.0.1. The attack surface is Core itself: no compromised plugins, themes, or custom code. As far as I could find, with an estimated 500 million+ websites running the platform, WordPress has decided to push the update rather aggressively.
Tagged Cybersecurity
App to Check Your Password in Security Breaches
I suppose it’s a playlist of cybersecurity for this week. This is yet another good usage of searching through known breaches covered yesterday’s post. If you are not using a password manager, like it or not, you are most likely guilty of reusing the same password. If you are not using a random password generator of any kind, at least a writer’s dice, human mind is not the best device of generating randomness.
App to Check Your Email Address in Security Breaches
Since I just covered a website tracking app related security breaches, I thought to add the old-fashioned one — the one tracks by your email address. Traditionally, service providers and security researchers had released their findings separately, per case basis. If you were a customer of 100 different services, you had to look out for each and every one of them. Although the standard practice mandates the leaked service provider to reach out the affected users, it was an optimistic outlook to believe all the users would be notified promptly.
How to Encrypt Disks on Windows
One of the trigger points behind my decision to build a dedicated PC has to do with general cybersecurity. To clarify, Boot Camp Windows running on Intel Mac is not particularly more vulnerable than the other Windows machine; it is simply more dated. And being dated, for the sake of security, means not gaining the support for the new security feature such as TPM.
App to Manage macOS Login Items and System Extensions
I have been migrating from one Mac to another whenever I upgrade the machine. Often it is delivered with the convenience that I get almost identical experience as before, but only on the newer hardware. That said, the part of the ‘migration’ includes, though I didn’t verify it, copying over login items and system extensions that are likely outdated and fell out of use.
How to Transfer to eSIM: Lessons From SKT SIM Breach
Though the title may sounds like a proper how-to, I ended up deciding to write it as “documentation” of what happened in my particular case. It obviously won’t work for everyone, and your mileage will vary greatly. I believe the common core issues for everyone would be that nearby carrier stores would not have enough physical SIM cards to serve all the affected customers, roughly 23 millions, so we are being waitlisted. Unless you absolutely do need a physical SIM card, you can apply for transfer to eSIM. This post covers staying in the same contract, but changing the carrier…