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WooThemes is investigating alleged website vulnerabilities

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Brian Krogsgard
Some WooThemes customers are alleging that their credit cards suffered from fraudulent charges after purchasing items from WooThemes’ website. The point of vulnerability is unknown at this time. The number of affected customers is unknown. The following is what we know:…

The cost of running a WordPress website

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Brian Krogsgard
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

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Brian Krogsgard
Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it's really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces.…

WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

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Travis Northcutt
Last week's 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today's 3.8.3 release. What's really interesting about this release is that not only is…

Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6

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Travis Northcutt
The good folks over at interconnect/it have backported the recent security updates for WordPress to the 3.5 and 3.6 branches, due to having some clients running older versions that, for whatever reason, aren't able to upgrade at this time. They've…

Akismet releases update to address pingback vulnerability reports

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Brian Krogsgard
Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address…
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