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Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) Update (13-Sept-2019)

You may have heard about Strong Customer Authentication (SCA), a new requirement under European payment law that, in part, aims to make online and mobile payments more secure. It does so by asking customers to provide additional information to complete their transactions. While SCA will come into effect on 14 September 2019, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently announced it will...
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Bookkeeping responsive website

Small business website for Salisbury based SP1 Bookkeeping

We used WordPress and Elementor Pro to put together an easy to manage, visually pleasing, site based on Tony's initial design and moved the website from Wix.com to WordPress and incorporating the latest 2019 SEO standards to ensure that the new site climbs Google rankings quickly! The new mobile-friendly website, powered by WordPress, simplifies content management and site administration and...
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WordPress plugins gone rogue – compromised plugins creating rogue administrator accounts

A recent malvertising campaign targeting vulnerable plugins is now trying to backdoor sites by creating rogue admin accounts. Back in July when the campaign was first noticed it was attempting to hijack sites to push popup ads, tech support scams, and malicious Android apps. Plugins targeted in July included vulnerable versions of Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode, which followed attacks in...
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WordPress 5.3 update signal

WordPress 5.3 will change how it blocks search engines from indexing content

WordPress announced an important change to how it will block search engines from indexing websites. This change abandons the traditional Robots.txt solution in favor of the Robots Meta Tag approach. The change brings WordPress in line with the reason for blocking Google, which is to keep the blocked pages from showing in Google’s search results. This is the Robots Meta Tag that WordPress will...
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