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WordPress: How Matt Mullenweg’s public spat with WP Engine is threatening the open-source internet.

You may not typically think of WordPress, the blogging platform turned ubiquitous content management system, as a workplace rife with corporate drama, or as an instigator of petty public beefs. How WordPress Got So Pressed For the last day of WordCamp U.S., Sept. 20, Mullenweg hosted a session that he previewed as being “one of my spiciest WordCamp presentations ever.” …

The young generation in the modern world is achieving feats with creative thoughts and transforming them into money-minting business models. Kishan Bagaria is the tech enthusiast and founder of texts.com which WordPress acquired for a price of $50 million. Meet Kishan Bagaria and his genius innovation Kishan Bagaria hails from Assam, India where he attended and completed his basic school …

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Hackers target critical vulnerability in WordPress plugin to compromise websites: Report

Hackers are using a critical vulnerability in the WP Automatic, a plugin used by more than 30,000 websites in WordPress. The vulnerability exists in the plugin’s user authentication mechanism, allowing threat actors to bypass security,, a report from Bleeping Computer said. Hackers can then use specially crafted queries to create administrator accounts on the target website compromising its security, as …

X announced a new long-form post format i.e., Articles on Friday. It will allow these users to publish posts with text formatting, other X posts and even embed video and images making it a very similar experience to that of WordPress-like content or a Medium article. Upgrade To Long Form Posts Last year, the social network under the ownership of …

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17,000 WordPress sites hacked in Balada Injector attacks last month

Over 17,000 WordPress websites have fallen victim to multiple Balada Injector campaigns that exploit known flaws in premium theme plugins, as per a report by Bleeping Computer. Sucuri’s April 2023 report revealed that Balada Injector has been active since 2017, affecting nearly one million WordPress sites. The latest campaign targets a specific weakness known as CVE-2023-3169 found in tagDiv Composer, …

Hackers exploit security bug in a WordPress plugin used by 11 million websites

Threat actors are actively exploiting a security bug in Elementor Pro, a popular WordPress plugin used by over 11 million websites. The security bug allows authenticated users like shop customers or site managers to change the site’s settings including administrator settings thereby opening the risk of websites being completely taken over. The flaw, found to exist due to broken access …

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The multimedia editing and graphic design company Canva unveiled on Wednesday a ‘Visual Worksuite’ with products and offerings competing with those launched by MS Teams and the Google ecosystem. Some of the new offerings include Canva Docs to design documents, Canva Websites offering services similar to Wordpress, Canva Whiteboards for remote collaboration, Video Background Remover, Data Visualisation, Remote Control for …

In a massive case of a data breach, GoDaddy Inc claimed that up to 1.2 million active and inactive Managed WordPress customers had their email address and customer number exposed. GoDaddy Inc, an internet domain registrar and web hosting company, in a statement released on Monday evening, claimed that on November 17, 2021, the company discovered unauthorized third-party access to …

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Facebook is updating its Data Portability Tool that will now allow users to send or transfer their Facebook posts and notes to third-party applications such as Google Docs, Blogger and WordPress.com. Notably, the tool is now renamed Transfer Your Information, which is designed with “privacy, security and utility in mind.” Facebook notes that users can transfer posts, notes, photos, and …

Google’s new ad tracking tech to be blocked by WordPress

WordPress, an open-source content management system, said it will block Google’s new ad tracking technology as the company sees it as a security concern. Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts is a new ad tracking feature that will replace third-party cookies. Google started testing the feature recently ; it uses an algorithm to place people with similar browsing histories in a …

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