WordPress Contact Form 7 and reCAPTCHA TYPE v3
If your site uses reCAPTCHA to prevent SPAM on form entries take care when upgrading as you could break the API and end up with a whole lot of SPAM … […] Read more
WordPress 5 Released
WordPress 5 has been released and along with it Gutenberg. Before you update, we strongly suggested you set up a test site and check out the impact of changes on your theme, content and plugins very carefully. […] Read more
Magento gets sold again
Adobe Systems Inc. has agreed to buy Magento for $1.68 billion, in a bid to capture a bigger slice of the digital-commerce industry from Salesforce.com Inc. and Oracle Corp. Where does that leave the future of its open source? […] Read more
Magento Credit Card Hack
Yes once again Magento is being targetted for credit card fraud. According to Flashpoint, “attackers who are using brute-force password attacks to access administration panels to scrape credit card numbers and install malware that mines cryptocurrency.”
Why you ask? Well the stealing credit card is obvious but the mining? Well Magento has a big footprint in terms of hosting needs and so does cryptocurrency mining. So what better way than to steal that power from someone else. Bit like “sharing” your neighbor’s cable TV link. But not as innocuous.
But don’t worry too much. Their efforts are simply brute-force attacks using common and known […] Read more
Ready for the holidays? Too soon?
Summer is not yet over but it’s time to plan for the holiday season; a time when many business acquire new customers. […] Read more