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This week I share 7 exit strategies from your own business. [powerpress]
Sites running Jetpack are being infected via compromised WordPress.com credentials. The largest password dump ever with 8.4 billion passwords is used in credential stuffing attacks. Wordfence Threat Intelligence discloses new plugin vulnerabilities as well as a vulnerability at tsoHost. Data… Continue Reading →
This week I review a e-commerce alternative: Etsy [powerpress]
Wordfence is now a CVE Numbering Authority, or a CNA. As a CNA, Wordfence can now assign CVE IDs for new vulnerabilities in WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes. An outage at Fastly takes down major websites including Reddit,… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about the 6 month business check-in. [powerpress]
A security fix for an information leak vulnerability was pushed out to WordPress sites using Jetpack that bypassed local settings preventing autoupdates. A ransomware attack on JBS that shut down meat processing operations in the United States has been attributed… Continue Reading →
We received a question from a customer that I thought would make a great episode. So here we are – answering your questions for the world to learn from. I have a question for you. How come the thumbnail images… Continue Reading →
This week I wish WordPress Happy Birthday! [powerpress]
A Critical Vulnerability in VMWare’s vCenter Server threatens some of the largest data centers in the world. An actively exploited 0-day in macOS was used to take screen shots of infected computers. CodeCov claims another victim as Japanese e-Commerce unicorn… Continue Reading →
This week I discuss using P2 for collaboration [powerpress]
Four memory corruption vulnerabilities are being actively exploited on Android devices and nearly 2 dozen popular Android apps exposed over 100 Million users’ sensitive information in cloud databases. Over 600,000 sites using WP Statistics required a patch to fix a… Continue Reading →
This week I discuss Best Practices vs The Client [powerpress]
A ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline affected fuel availability in 17 southeastern US states, and Bloomberg reported that Colonial Pipeline paid $5 million to DarkSide, a Russian ransomware service provider. The Biden Administration issued an executive order to increase US… Continue Reading →
This week I share an eCommerce alternative: OpenCart [powerpress]
A vulnerability discovered in Packagist, which is used by Composer to manage PHP package requests, could have allowed attackers to trick Composer into downloading backdoored source code, potentially affecting all WordPress sites. Packagist reports that it’s not aware of any… Continue Reading →
Things are changing here at The WordPress Photography Podcast., but the show is not going anywhere.
This week I answer listener questions. [powerpress]
Episode 115: Update Your Mac: Gatekeeper Bypass Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild - Wordfence Blog
Apple patches a gatekeeper bypass vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild on MacOS. Though this vulnerability requires some social engineering to exploit, it is believed to have been actively exploited since January 9, 2021. Some Digital Ocean customers… Continue Reading →
This week I give an update on my niching down my agency focus. [powerpress]
Attacks on unpatched SolarWinds systems continue. We’re now learning of a supply chain attack that started in late January 2021 affecting 29,000 customers of Codecov, as well as a zero-day under active attack affecting customers of PulseSecure VPN. Customers of… Continue Reading →
New episodes by email or direct RSS feed link In this episode, we share a story from an international franchise that had some hiccups during a major charity-raising campaign. Errors and mistakes made during the campaign prevented thousands of potential… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about growing your business by adding services. [powerpress]
An FBI initiative began remotely removing webshells from infected Microsoft Exchange servers. WordPress 5.7.1 was released with a few security patches. Over 15 Elementor add on plugins were found to have vulnerabilities similar to those found in the main Elementor… Continue Reading →
This week I review some topics for the HodgePodge Episode. [powerpress]
A new Wix ad campaign targets WordPress but ends up being tone deaf in both content and strategy. New details emerge about the PHP compromise, but the full story remains unclear. Facebook user data from 2019 ends up on the… Continue Reading →
New episodes by email or direct RSS feed link BP Miller is a multi-award-winning photographer, photojournalist, and speaker. His work has been seen in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and countless other… Continue Reading →
Announcements The month in WordPress: March 2021 Wix Advertising Campaign Insert Font Awesome Icons Into the Block Editor via the JVM Gutenberg Rich Text Icons Plugin Jetpack 9.6: Sell more stuff with Search for your Woo Store Is there a… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about raising your pricing during a pandemic. [powerpress]
The self-hosted Git repository for PHP was compromised, with attackers adding a backdoor to a development version of PHP 8.1. The intrusion was detected by the PHP community quickly, and no production environments were affected. Ubiquiti experienced an intrusion in… Continue Reading →
This week I talk about creating a challenge for yourself. [powerpress]
