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Angry ex-employee blamed for hack of WordPress plugin developer, and email to customers warning of security hole

Angry ex-employee blamed for hack of WordPress plugin developer, and email to customers warning of security hole

Users of the popular WordPress translation plugin WPML (also known as WordPress MultiLingual) received an email from a hacker claiming to expose serious security vulnerabilities in the software that allegedly put the customers’ own websites at risk.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Spy program could have given hacker access to all Yahoo email, claims ex-employee

Spy program could have given hacker access to all Yahoo email, claims ex-employee

According to a report in “The Intercept”, the snooping code was implemented in such a way that it could have allowed a hacker to “basically read everyone’s Yahoo mail.”

Graham Cluley