by Peter Cornish | Mar 30, 2021 | Exploits, Hosting, news, Website Management Services, Wordpress
We just got close to a major hack-fest that would have impacted 80+% of web sites worldwide. Don’t believe me? Read on. The WordFence team have just posted this article on how an embedded exploit nearly went live in PHP. As PHP is used in some 80% of all...
by Peter Cornish | Feb 5, 2021 | Exploits, news, Website Management Services, Wordpress
The team at Wordfence, WordPress’ top-rated firewall plugin for WordPress have identified an issue with Contact Form 7 Style. They have not been successful to contact the plugin developer, so it remains at risk and there is no update currently If you are using...
by Peter Cornish | Feb 5, 2021 | Google, news
Google has launched News Showcase. This product is positioned very well to address the Australian Media Code initiative and issues. News Showcase appears to addresses the main concerns that brought the Media code into existence. News Showcase launched on Friday,...
by Peter Cornish | Feb 3, 2021 | Google, news, Website Management Services
What happens if Google leaves Australia? As if COVID-19 wasn’t bad enough!!! Not only do we need to pivot our businesses through the commercial famine and feast brought on by COVID-19, but now we need to deal with the real possibility of Google extricating...
by Peter Cornish | Jan 7, 2021 | SEO, Backlinks, Google, news, Website Management Services
What are backlinks? Backlinks are connections from other websites in the internet, ‘linking’ to a page in your website. Google’s very early algorithms calculated your website’s SEO performance in terms of the number and quality of backlinks it had. What are toxic...