The core WordPress team released version 5.2.4 of WordPress on October 14th 2019. The release addresses six security issues that were all privately reported through WordPress’ responsible disclosure procedure. Like any security release, users should update immediately to the latest version to keep their sites secure.
The short answer is, if you’ve outgrown the features or functionality of your current website builder services, such as Wix.com or Squarespace (or any number of services provided by website hosting companies) then you’re going to need help making the move.
Whether it’s a single role, or recruiting staff for a new office if you’ve got a WordPress website we can get your WordPress website set up so that you can recruit staff without having to pay listing or agency fees – just a single license fee for the WordPress plugin and until the end of October (2019) we’ll install the plugin for free if you’re an O’Brien Media website design or website hosting customer.
Check out our article for an example of how the plugin looks to potential candidates!
We live in a world of content, masses, and masses of content. Every day, people are writing blog posts, creating and posting infographics, sharing case studies and customer testimonials, and launching businesses. Wordpress website development is at an all-time high.
If you’re a WordPress admin using a plug-in called Rich Reviews, you’ll want to uninstall it. Now. The now-defunct plug-in has a major vulnerability that allows malvertisers to infect sites running WordPress and redirect visitors to other sites.
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.
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.
Recently a new customer came to us needing their website cleaned up after a hack, as part of the cleanup we found an interesting little malicious WordPress plugin, called “WP Security”, that was being used to encrypt blog post content. The website owner complained of a newly installed and activated plugin on their website that was rendering their original content unreadable.
WordPress 5.1 “Jaco” is now available! Update now to keep your website current, secure, and benefit from the latest feature enhancements.
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.
