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A WordPress bug is making this succulent appear on a bunch of sites

A major issue involving the Wordpress VIP Go platform also sees sites crash.

On Jun 11, 2019 by Mikael Thalen

Tech
Glitched Wordpress logo

Hackers are infecting WordPress websites to mine cryptocurrencies

Here's how you can protect yourself.

On Feb 6, 2018 by Ben Dickson

Layer 8 Tech

AT&T, Verizon earn failing grades on latest EFF privacy scorecard

Many of the services you use every day failed badly.

On Jun 17, 2015 by William Turton

Tech

Kim Kardashian’s website is full of dangerous security holes

A month after being reported, no one has tried to fix the massive security flaws.

On May 19, 2015 by Dell Cameron

Tech

Ban against a single blog post leads Turkish ISPs to censor all of WordPress

Turkey tried to censor a single blog post. It got far worse.

On Apr 1, 2015 by Efe Kerem Sozeri

Tech

Anti-gay activist ordered to pay $25,000 for bad DMCA claim

Occasionally, man bites dog. Occasionally, anti-gay copyright abusers get their pants sued off.

On Mar 6, 2015 by Kevin Collier

Tech

Weird Twitter’s plagiarism police have a new target: Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell may have bigger problems than his pseudo-facts.

On Dec 11, 2014 by Miles Klee

Internet Culture News

Thousands of websites hacked through new WordPress vulnerability

Nearly two million websites are at risk.

On Jul 24, 2014 by Patrick Howell O'Neill

Tech

Tumblr, WordPress, and Wikipedia just encrypted your Web activities

“We have to create a mass encryption movement.” 

On Jun 5, 2014 by Patrick Howell O'Neill

Tech

Architect sues over blog campaign that claims he has a ‘micro penis’

John Wender says that he has been “irreparably harmed” by a campaign of digital slander.

On Nov 13, 2013 by Miles Klee

Internet Culture News

‘Scandal’ scandal: Popular fan blogger exposed as ABC employee

In times like these, who can fandoms really trust?

On Oct 24, 2013 by Miles Klee

Fandom

Tangled Web: Does freelance have to mean solitary confinement?

How do I get my fellow freelancers to meet up, so we all get a sense of corporate comraderie?  

On Aug 14, 2013 by Jess Zimmerman

Internet Culture Via

Anti-gay group gets WordPress to censor its own views

This is about as close as you can get to suing yourself.

On Aug 13, 2013 by Miles Klee

Internet Culture News

How Taylor Swift inspired a widespread cancer hoax

There's no legal recourse for the family whose photos were misappropriated on the Remembering Reilly WordPress blog—good news for the First Amendment, but no consolation for the Gilliams.

On Jun 14, 2013 by Tim Sampson

IRL

WordPress blogs manipulated in massive attack

In a sophisticated yet simple attack, someone exploited Wordpress sites to form an army of 2,500 blogs, all of which sent relentless requests.

On May 1, 2013 by Lorraine Murphy

Internet Culture News

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