Over the last two weeks we have had two WordPress jobs. One came about when our sysadmin discovered, during a routine system check, that a client’s site was using several insecure plugins. She contacted the client and their web designer and a disaster was averted – that web designer has …
Security advisory for Drupal – do you know if this applies to you?
Is your website produced using Drupal? Or WordPress? Do you know? Do you discuss this and the security of your website with your web developers? Drupal is a similar product to WordPress and is used to create website, so any security update to a product that sits there on the …
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Credit Card Security
I have written a piece over on CyberAwake to get you thinking about credit cards security if you are selling online: Take Care of the Credit Cards – CyberAwake
Two stories about GitHub
GitHub is a code development environment and code repository used around the world by many software developers and well known applications. Consequently it is also a prime target for threat actors who if they can get inside the development of packages can infect many unsuspecting users. The collaboration tool Slack …
LEGO hacked
APIs (application programming interface) are a key part of interoperability and functionality online – but they have to secure: LEGO BrickLink bugs let hackers hijack accounts, breach servers (bleepingcomputer.com) How much are you relying on your web designer to protect your reputation?
Suffolk Police apologies after publishing highly sensitive information on its website – UPDATED
This post was originally made on 16 November 2022 Update 25 November 2022 There is no good news for the Suffolk Police force in this follow-up report, only bad news for the victims. Suffolk Constabulary first published sex offence victims’ data in 2019 – BBC News Original Post Names, addresses …
WordPress websites are easy hanging fruit for hackers – is yours?
I have just published the second part of a series of articles looking at the governance that business owners and boards should exercise over software, websites and their reputation:
