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Immunomodulatory Biomaterials In Regenerative Medicine — Dr. Kara Spiller-Geisler, Ph.D., Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems.

Dr. Kara Spiller, PhD (https://drexel.edu/biomed/faculty/core/SpillerKara/) is Associate Professor in the Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory at Drexel University, in Philadelphia.

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MercadoLibre, one of the most important e-commerce companies in Latin America, confirmed unauthorized access to a part of its source code, in addition to confirming that the attackers managed to access the personal records of some 300,000 users. The company has not confirmed that its IT infrastructure was affected during the incident.

The Argentine firm confirmed the compromise of its systems after hackers from the Latin American group Lapsus$ threatened to expose confidential information from MercadoLibre and other e-commerce platforms. Faced with this threat, MercadoLibre enabled all its security and containment protocols, so it recommended that users of the platform change their passwords and monitor their account statements to prevent any attempt at malicious activity.

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A report by cybersecurity firm Binarly points to the detection of 16 critical vulnerabilities in various implementations of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), present in multiple HP enterprise devices. According to the researchers, threat actors can exploit these flaws to implant firmware capable of evading UEFI Secure Boot, Intel Boot Guard, and virtualization-based security measures.

Cybersecurity specialists reported the detection of multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Security QRadar SOAR. According to the report, successful exploitation of these flaws would allow the deployment of severe attack scenarios.

Below are brief descriptions of the reported flaws, in addition to their tracking keys and scorings assigned according to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

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A report specialized in WordPress security points to a 150% increase in reported flaws during 2021 compared to the previous year, in addition to establishing that almost 30% of the vulnerabilities detected in plugins for WordPress do not receive updates.

Since this is the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world, this should be a worrisome issue for tens of millions of website administrators.

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Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update for the month of March has been made officially available with 71 fixes spanning across its software products such as Windows, Office, Exchange, and Defender, among others.

Of the total 71 patches, three are rated Critical and 68 are rated Important in severity. While none of the vulnerabilities are listed as actively exploited, three of them are publicly known at the time of release.

It’s worth pointing out that Microsoft separately addressed 21 flaws in the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser earlier this month.