5 ‘Ignore at Your Peril’ Reasons You Need to Run Regular Updates on Your Website

In this blog, we share the 5 ‘ignore at your peril’ reasons you need to run regular updates on your website. This includes using the latest version of WordPress, and regularly deploying theme and plugin updates. Not sure how to do this on your own? We can help! Find out more about our Client Care…

Optus admits handing user phone numbers to websites

Without customer’s knowledge. Optus has admitted to handing over its customer’s phone numbers to certain third-party websites accessed by the user. As first flagged by a user on telco forum Whirlpool, when a user browses certain websites, Optus provides the customer’s mobile phone number to the website operator where a “commercial relationship” exists. The practice,…

Microsoft won’t fix Internet Explorer zero-day

HP researchers release exploit code after Microsoft declines to issue patch. HP researchers have published details and proof-of-concept exploit code for a number of zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser which allow attackers to bypass a key exploit mitigation. The researchers – part of HP’s zero-day initiative team – have a policy to…