I got a few email alerts from Wordfence about malicious scripts on this site. Turns out one of the plugins installed here had ben sold on and was injecting javascript onto every page. Critical Problems: * File contains suspected malware URL: wp-content/plugins/widget-logic/WidgetLogicAdminConfig.php The malicious URL matched This was an alert that I saw whilst scanning my …
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Dot org domain sold
Recent news reports in the last week that the top level domain recognised and used by charities and non profits has been sold to a private equity company. The Internet Society (through Public Interest Registry) have operated the domain since 2003, before that the domain was operated by Versign. They announced the sale on their …
WordPress buying Tumblr
WordPress.com owner Automattic that has last week been reported to purchase rival Microbloging site Tumblr. The deal is being reported to be below $3 Million, far below the hyper valuation of $1.1 Billion that Yahoo paid in 2013. Back then Yahoo was buying lots of start up companies as part of a revitalisation drive by …
Mozillia an Internet Villain for supporting DNS over HTTPS
An odd story popped up on my social media feed over the weekend. The Internet Services Providers’ Association has nominated Mozilla to be an ‘internet villain.’ This seemed rather odd given that the Firefox web browser is the only mainstream browser currently being developed independently of any company*. Looking closer at their reasoning, ISPA writes: …
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Microsoft Edge to become Google Chrome based
What could be described as an end to an era, especially to those of use who knew Internet Explorer 6 as all that was, Microsoft announced last week that it changing the underlying component (Rendering Engine) that powers its current web browser, Microsoft Edge, to use the same one used by Google for Chrome. The …
Help, My WordPress editor has changed!
Note: this applies to self hosted version of WordPress, not to the version that uses WordPress.com. Last week, the new version of WordPress was released. After many delays, the self hosted WordPress 5.0 brought the new Gutenberg editor. This has been controversial with a lot of people in the WordPress community. The new editor changes …
Flickr going back to its old subscription model
However for free users this will mean that photos will be deleted. Back in April, Flickr was acquired from Yahoo by Smugmug, this represents a major change in direction for Flickr under them than Yahoo, and a return to Flickrs subscription based roots. Originally, Flickr would let you upload 200 photos on free accounts, then …
Google Chrome Turns 10
I remember when Googles Chrome Browser was announced, after an online comic appeared. At the time, Chrome was a Windows only Webkit browser, the big innovation being having each browser tab run in its own CPU process, so that if one crashes, it doesn’t take down the entire browser. Its a model that has since …
Bloated Web Pages
Have you noticed there are some websites on your phone browser that are really slow? The browser may struggle to scroll, becoming all jerky. I’ve noticed websites on my old iPad2 causing the browser to crash. Even though that iPad is very old by todays tech standards, I used to be able to browse the …
The History of the Browser User Agent
I came across this very old article on the history of the web browser user agent string via OS News. And behold, then came a new web browser known as “Mozilla”, being short for “Mosaic Killer,” but Mosaic was not amused, so the public name was changed to Netscape, and Netscape called itself Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), …