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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

You very likely will interact with a content management system (CMS) multiple times today. For instance, the The Last Watchdog article you are reading uses a CMS to store posts, display them in an attractive manner, and provide search capabilities. Security is essential for a CMS. Best security practices.

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The team behind the Joomla CMS discloses a data breach

Security Affairs

Maintainers at the Joomla open-source content management system (CMS) announced a security breach that took place last week. The company did not reveal is third-parties have found and accessed to the S3 bucket. ” reads the data breach notification. SecurityAffairs – data breach, hacking). Pierluigi Paganini.

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HHS Releases Final Data Sharing Rules

Data Breach Today

ONC, CMS Rules Aim to Provide Patients with Secure Access to Health Data The Department of Health and Human Services Monday released its long-awaited interoperability and information blocking final rules.

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Experts discovered a privilege escalation issue in popular Umbraco CMS

Security Affairs

Experts discovered a vulnerability in the popular CMS Umbraco that could allow low privileged users to escalate privileges to “admin.” ” Security experts from Trustwave have discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the popular website CMS, Umbraco. “Umbraco version 8.9.0 also seen in 8.6.3)

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Blue Button breach to test CMS response to inappropriate data access

Information Management Resources

In the wake of the data breach at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency has conducted a review of Blue Button 2.0.

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HPE discloses critical zero-day in Systems Insight Manager

Security Affairs

The flaw stems from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data that can result in the deserialization of untrusted data. mxtool -r -f toolsmulti-cms-search.xml 1>nul 2>nul. mxtool -r -f toolsmulti-cms-search.xml 1>nul 2>nul. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Secure together: Managing your WordPress access during coronavirus

IT Governance

That’s not necessarily a knock against the CMS (content management system). million WordPress-run sites , researchers noted just how difficult it is for the CMS to prevent attacks. ” IT Governance had a simple solution to mitigate these risks: it implemented strict controls on who could access the CMS and from where. .

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