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21/09/2023

Edge browser now comes with 5GB VPN. No idea how it performs yet.

12/05/2023

The war continues -

One of WordPress's most popular Elementor plugins, "Essential Addons for Elementor," was found to be vulnerable to an unauthenticated privilege escalation that could allow remote attacks to gain administrator rights on the site.

17/10/2022

New website for a Warhammer 40K hobby shop in Sandakan. https://sandakanhobby.com/

11/12/2021

WordPress websites under attack?

Wordfence analysts report having detected a massive wave of attacks in the last couple of days, originating from 16,000 IPs and targeting over 1.6 million WordPress sites.

09/12/2021

The never ending conflict against hackers and scammers.

Credit card swipers are being injected into random plugins of e-commerce WordPress sites, hiding from detection while stealing customer payment details.

13/11/2021

This will probably be resolved soon but it is surprising nevertheless. Web hosting is an essential part of having a website.

SiteGround hosted sites dropping out of Google since Monday. Possibly an issue with DNS

18/08/2021

Heads up if you are using these plugins

The bug would allow a number of malicious actions, up to and including full site takeover. The vulnerable plugin is installed on 100,000 websites.

14/08/2021

This one was new for me

CAPTCHA-protected malicious URLs are sn*******ng lately, researchers said.

19/12/2020

Contact 7 is a very popular plugin. Make sure update to fix this vulnerability.

The development team behind the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin discloses an unrestricted file upload vulnerability.

10/12/2020

DIVI theme users hold off upgrading to WP5.6 until DIVI issues an update. Multiple sites have been reported broken. If clearing your caches doesn't work, you should revert to the last working WP version if you experience this. Also it is not a good idea to upgrade as soon as the latest WP comes along. At least wait for X.X.1.

Problems reported after upgrade:
1) anchor links quit working
2) default WP Menu has problem
3) RankMath plugin not working with the Divi editor
4) scroll down button don’t work
5) the menu disarpears in some cases and don’t show up after scroll on some pages.
6) Caldera doesn’t work in the 5.6

21/11/2020

No one I know use this app but just to be safe.

The Go SMS Pro texting app has over 100 million installations from the Google Play Store, but popularity doesn’t matter: You need to stop using it and delete it from your phone now. Cybersecurity firm Trustwave recently discovered a major security loophole in the app that makes all photos, videos,...