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 …
Do you use a WordPress Gift Card Plug-in? If so it s back to work for you!
Here is a flaw in the YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards Premium plug-in which needs fixing: Hackers exploit bug in WordPress gift card plugin with 50K installs (bleepingcomputer.com) Get it fixed – if that means waking up your web designers to check if they have already fixed it, then do it. …
Continue reading “Do you use a WordPress Gift Card Plug-in? If so it s back to work for you!”
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:
Two very different hacking campaigns in the wild now
These two articles from Bleeping Computer shows the wide range of cyber security issues an organisation has to be aware of and take action about. One is the traditional malware getting into your systems and stealing sensitive information which it then sends out to the threat actors, to be used …
Continue reading “Two very different hacking campaigns in the wild now”
Then there was a third problem with WordPress… BackupBuddy
WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy I wrote an article today for our training site CyberAwake, questioning exactly how much governance organisations are extending to their websites. The article started off because of two WordPress issues this week and during my background reading for the article I came across this from last …
Continue reading “Then there was a third problem with WordPress… BackupBuddy”
