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Tech Roundup Week Ending July 28

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Mike Demopoulos
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WordPress 6.3 Release Candidate 2 – WordPress News WordPress 6.3 Release Candidate 2 is available for download and testing. It is currently under development and should not be installed on production or critical websites. It is scheduled for release on…
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Tech Roundup Week Ending July 21

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WordPress 6.3 to Introduce a Development Mode WordPress 6.3 will introduce a new development mode. This mode can be initiated by declaring the WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE constant. It is not recommended for production sites. Possible values for WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE include core, plugin, theme,…

Tech Roundup Week Ending July 7

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WordPress Dropping support for PHP 5 WordPress has announced that they will discontinue support for PHP 5 in the upcoming WordPress version 6.3, set to release on August 8, 2023. This decision implies that the new minimum supported PHP version…

Tech Roundup Week Ending June 30

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iThemes: Why WordPress Malware Scanners Are Worthless In a thought-provoking article recently published on iThemes, the effectiveness of WordPress malware scanners is critically examined. The article suggests these tools may not be as reliable as users hope, often failing to…

Business Roundup Week Ending April 14

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WordPress Turns 20 Resource Hub We are calling all WordPressers! It's been 20 incredible years of coding, creating, and dreaming. WP has grown from a blog platform to power an ever-growing percentage of the world's websites -- let that sink…

Nulled Themes and Plugins

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Dan Knauss
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My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…

This is a security nightmare: a…

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This is a security nightmare: a researcher managed to breach over 35 major companies' internal systems (including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, and more) in a software supply chain attack. 😱 The attack comprised uploading malware to open source repositories including…

Sucuri has found some malware that…

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Dan Knauss
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Sucuri has found some malware that can disable security plugins to avoid detection. 😨 This is really devious! Luke Leal explains: "If a user tries to reactivate one of the disabled security plugins, [the Malware] will momentarily appear to activate…

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Dan Knauss

Add this to the list of crappy things in 2020: Ben Martin at Sucuri shares another newly discovered variation of a credit card swiper he found on a WordPress WooCommerce site. 💳 Ben says, "2020 appears to be the year…

Ben Martin, who is Sucuri’s Remediation…

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Ben Martin, who is Sucuri's Remediation Team Lead, breaks down the way dedicated credit card swiping malware works within WordPress. 💳 This is not common, but as Ben points out, we can expect more of it: "With WooCommerce recently overtaking…
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