Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break! A badly coded WordPress plugin again. Luckily it has been caught: Sneaky! DNS is such a great lure for using as a control channel. I’m really surprised its not used more: Oh dear. At least they found it in the end…

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