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WordPress
Tom Furmanski

Update Easy WP SMTP – Vulnerability affecting thousands of sites across the internet discovered

The Easy WP SMTP plugin authors have released a new update, fixing a very critical 0day vulnerability. When leveraged, this vulnerability gives unauthenticated attackers the power to modify any options of an affected site — ultimately leading to a complete site compromise.The vulnerability, found only in version 1.3.9, has been seen exploited in the wild and impacts thousands of sites.

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Tom Furmanski 25th March 2019 1:49 pm
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Website Design
Chris Grant (he/him)

Micro Interactions – Are you engaging your website visitors?

Micro interactions are the latest (possible biggest) UX trend to be recorded so far, thus critical for modern design which can’t go without them anymore. We are surrounded by micro interactions, as they are present on every website, app, or program we’re using.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 24th March 2019 11:18 pm
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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

[Infographic] Is Facebook becoming social media’s retirement home?

Even though it might be a bit of a stretch to describe Facebook as social media’s retirement home, the social network is experiencing an exodus of young people while increasing numbers of over 55s are signing up. Facebook is generally struggling to retain its user base and today, it has an estimated 15 million fewer U.S. users than it did in 2017.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 14th March 2019 4:37 am
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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Say goodbye to Google+ from April 2nd, 2019

We all know, curated social media helps keep reader eyeballs on a publisher’s content. Google+ tried to be that curated social media account for content producers. And, in theory, it worked rather well. Google+ and content management systems like WordPress and Drupal played well together.

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Chris Grant (he/him) 11th March 2019 1:19 am
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News
Jenny Howell

The most dangerous phrase in the language…

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was a U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer. She was the developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; at the end of her service she was the oldest serving officer in the United States Navy. 

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Jenny Howell 8th March 2019 2:14 pm