Web Dandy

22/08/2022

Several EU courts have recently found that websites utilising Google fonts and Google analytics are in breach of GDPR regulations. Google reCAPTCHA also has the same issues. Find out how your website can remain compliant.
https://www.webdandy.co.uk/google-fonts-analytics-recaptcha-and-gdpr/

18/07/2021

Critical Vulnerability Detected in WooCommerce on July 13, 2021 – What You Need to Know:

On July 13 2021, a critical vulnerability was identified in WooCommerce. Learn more about what this means and how it was resolved.

23/12/2019

Wishing all of our customers a happy Xmas and new year.

21/07/2018

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2018/07/annual-report-2017-18/

New laws and high profile investigations have helped put data protection and privacy at the centre of the UK public’s consciousness like never before, the Information Commissioner has said.

12/02/2018

News from WordFence:

In the past 24 hours, Security researcher Scott Helme discovered that a third party accessibility plugin called ‘Browsealoud’ had their servers compromised. The plugin relies on a website including Javascript in their content in order to work. This compromise resulted in over 4,000 websites serv...

10/02/2018

WordPress v4.9.4 fixes a critical bug in v4.9.3, update now: https://wordpress.org/news/2018/02/wordpress-4-9-4-maintenance-release/ress

WordPress 4.9.4 is now available. This maintenance release fixes a severe bug in 4.9.3, which will cause sites that support automatic background updates to fail to update automatically, and will re…

10/02/2018

If you have a WordPress site that you maintain you'll need to manually update WordPress to v4.9.4 if your site is currently on v4.9.3:

[Update at 10:50am PST: Based on the comments we’ve received below, it sounds like this problem only affects certain sites. We have received several reports of successful updates, although some of these may be the hosting provider updating WordPress installs manually. Overall this looks like good ...

09/02/2018

A case study on why it's important to maintain your WordPress website:

A case study in why WordPress maintenance is important to prevent your site from being hacked.

26/10/2017

Malwarebytes writes about the latest ransomware called Bad Rabbit: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/10/badrabbit-ransomware-strikes-eastern-europe/. Find out how to protect yourself.

A new strain of malware by the authors of NotPetya called the BadRabbit ransomware is spreading through Eastern Europe, offering a fake Flash update to drop the infection.