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WordPress Enables Free HTTPS Connections to Custom Domains
WordPress is a free, open source content management system, typically used for blogs and quick makeshift websites. While it’s nice to have your own content, you want to make sure that its safe and secure, something which the “Lets Encrypt” project hopes to improve upon, a project that WordPress have…
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WordPress Dismisses 43% of Piracy Takedown Notices
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, has published the number of DMCA takedown requests received during the last few months. Between January to June, there was a total of 4,679 copyright claims submitted but only 57% were successful. Why? A large proportion of these were inaccurate and more than 10% of…
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SoakSoak Malware Compromises Over 100,000 WordPress Sites
Security provider Sucuri has discovered a new form of malware that has infected over 100,000 WordPress sites. The Malware, dubbed ‘SoakSoak’, has resulted in 11,000 sites being blacklisted by Google for security reasons. Websites infected with SoakSoak are vulnerable to unstable behaviour, including randomised redirects to SoakSoak.ru – the origin…
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WordPress Now Powers Over 22% of the Most Popular Websites in US, 14.7% Globally
WordPress blogs now fuel over 22% of new websites in the US and 14.7 of the top million sites in the world, according to W3, becoming the fastest growing CMS of 2013. WordPress.com blogs passed the 50 million mark in July this year. The blogs have accrued 2.5 billion…
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eTeknix Are Hiring – Web Developer
For those of you who are avid readers of eTeknix, you’ve seen how quickly eTeknix has grown in terms of content and of course, staff members. Our team has grown by huge amounts, allowing us to produce more content than ever before for both news and reviews. With lots of…
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Wordpress Powered Websites Under By Brute-Force By Bot-Nets
It has been reporting by hosting companies like HostGator and even CDN service ‘CloudFlare’ that there are unknown people behind highly distributed global attacks via brute force attempts using more than 90,000 IP addressing trying to crack in websites using content management software Wordpress’s default or commonly used administrative credentials.…
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