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Best wishes from us

At the end of each year many of us slow down and rethink about what happened during the past months, contemplating what went well, what did not so much and what can be improved. I’m sure many of us hugely anticipate the New Year and look forward to starting new plans, achieving new goals and […]

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Contact Form 7

Contact Form 7 Vulnerability

Contact form 7 WordPress developers updated their plugin last week to patch a security vulnerability that allowed unrestricted file uploads in all versions up to and including 5.3.1 – so we would strongly recommend that if you are using this plugin for your website’s contact form you run an update asap.  Of course, if you are a

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Common email problems and how to solve them

Email is an amazing technology. It’s used for many things that you probably do in modern life. Companies use it for a day-to-day communication with their customers, to welcome them and to send updates about their services/products, promotions, purchase confirmations, password resets etc. Unfortunately, it can create some problems too.   Here are some of the most common email issues and ways to deal with

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WordPress 5.6

Securing WordPress 5.6

Since this version of WordPress came out last week Wordfence, the leading WordPress security plugin, has brought out an update (7.4.14) to prevent a potential security vulnerability. WordPress 5.6 now has application password functionality which will be useful in a number of scenarios including ecommerce plugins, but hackers could gain administrator access rights through phishing

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Google going down

On Monday the 14th December the online world stopped for over 40 minutes – most of Googles services went down. This put a lot of businesses out of action, affecting not only their usual day-to-day operations but also creating a lot of stress and uncertainty. This also had an impact on the whole education sector

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