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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. ” reads the data breach notification. “Known to the current Team Leader at the time of the breach. ( [link] ) Each backup copy included a full copy of the website, including all the data.”

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HHS OIG: Medicare Should Require Hospital Device Security

Data Breach Today

CMS Says It's Considering New Cybersecurity Requirements The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is considering new cybersecurity requirements for hospitals participating in Medicare after a watchdog agency recommended CMS should require the facilities to address the cybersecurity of their networked medical devices.

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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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Joomla CMS Discloses Data Leak

Adam Levin

Administrators of the open source Joomla content management system announced a data incident that potentially compromised the information of 2,700 developers. A database containing the personal data of users of Joomla Resources Directory website was discovered on an unprotected Amazon Web Services bucket following an internal audit.

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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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Magento flaw exploited to deploy persistent backdoor hidden in XML

Security Affairs

Adobe addressed the issue with the Patch Tuesday security updates for February 2024. In this case, the command is sed, which adds a backdoor to the (automatically generated) CMS controller.” Captured data were sent to to hxxps://halfpriceboxesusa[.]com/pub/health_check.php . “Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.6-p3,

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