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03/03/2024

You can sell subscriptions through PayPal now! Wonderful news.

25/09/2023

Just gave up on OceanWP annual subscription. It was cheap at $64 per year but GeneratePress and some others offer better value.

23/08/2022

It will be pretty interesting if Digital Ocean does indeed buy Cloudways.

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN), the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloudways, a leading ma

05/08/2022

"Don't touch it if it works" - sounds very tempting. However since every part of technology stack is moving forward to newer versions, such approach to IT change management puts your website into a prison cell with no quick escape route. If you run a WordPress website, you must keep it updated. Or maybe hire us to keep it maintained for you.

05/06/2022

Delicious Brains was acquired by WPEngine. This gives a new home to their plug-ins that include ACF. With ACF it's much easier to use WordPress as a content management system rather than website management system. Meaning advancement of headless with WordPress as a backend for a website created with modern stacks.

These plugins play a pivotal role in the way WordPress sites are built today, and they represent the preferred way of building for the foreseeable future.

02/06/2022

Special offer! Ask us to upgrade your WordPress 5 website to the latest WordPress 6 for just £100 + applicable taxes.

This includes:
- testing of your website in Staging environment to minimise downtime;
- performance review;
- recommedations for plugin upgrades and replacements.

Get your website ready for summer!

31/05/2022

Careful with Microsoft Word documents this week. A new zero day vulnerability is in the wild! Don't open documents from untrusted sources.

News has emerged of a “feature” in Office that has been abused as a zero-day bug to run evil code. Turning off macros doesn’t help!

27/02/2022

A popular social media platform Buffer was used in information war. If you use it, check if your account was hacked.

Update 5: February 26th, 7:49 pm Our first priority has been investigating the unauthorized access into Buffer accounts while preventing future access and blocking suspicious traffic. Now, we are beginning the process of removing unauthorized posts and are aiming to successfully remove all unauthori...

17/02/2022

Life is full of surprises. A critical vulnerability was discovered in a popular WordPress backup plugin UpdraftPlus.

Update: a previous version of this article indicated that an attacker would need to begin their attack when a backup was in progress, and would need to guess the appropriate timestamp to download a backup. Since the article was originally published, we have found that it is possible to obtain a full...

30/12/2021

New Year present from hackers! Shortcode Addons WordPress plugin must be patched urgently as a critical vulnerability was discovered. More details at Patchstack website: https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/shortcode-addons/wordpress-shortcode-addons-plugin-3-0-3-unauthenticated-arbitrary-option-update-vulnerability

We offer website care plans. Getting vulnerabilities addressed promptly is one of reasons to hire our service.

Hand curated, verified and enriched vulnerability information by Patchstack security experts. Find all WordPress plugin, theme and core security issues.

14/12/2021

Many are busy dealing with newly discovered vulnerability in Java library Log4j. Fastly published an article explaining why this vulnerability is so critical to patch promptly.

CVE-2021-44228 is a Remote Code Ex*****on vulnerability in the Apache Log4j library being actively exploited. We provide our observations into the exploit and a summary of its impact.