Security Flaws in Ubiquiti Unifi Cameras and Routers
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Security Flaws in Ubiquiti Unifi Cameras and Routers

Recent findings have revealed significant security vulnerabilities in Ubiquiti’s line of cameras and routers, affecting over 20,000 devices worldwide. These vulnerabilities expose users to a range of cyber threats, including amplification attacks and privacy risks. This article provides an in-depth analysis of the issues identified, the potential impact on users, and the measures that can…

OVHcloud Hosting suffers from a major fire destroying SBG2 data centre with advice to activate Disaster Recovery Plan – Provides stark reminder for the need of website backups
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OVHcloud Hosting suffers from a major fire destroying SBG2 data centre with advice to activate Disaster Recovery Plan – Provides stark reminder for the need of website backups

We all have hosting problems from time to time, but today the largest VPS and dedicated server provider in Europe has suffered from a worst-case scenario, a major fire in their data centre. First of all, no one has been hurt, and OVH state the fire is over. Sadly the result of this is that…

Google December 2020 Core Update rolling out after a long 7 months
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Google December 2020 Core Update rolling out after a long 7 months

Google make minor algorithm changes regularly, so we don’t typically see the massive swings in rankings that happened with the likes of Panda and Penguin. The one exception may have been the Bert update that launched on  October 22, 2019 which focused on low quality poorly written content. Along with the regular minor updates, Google…

Buy on Google is now free to use & integrates with PayPal & Shopify
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Buy on Google is now free to use & integrates with PayPal & Shopify

Google has been making some aggressively trying to tackle the dominance of Amazon in the shopping market in recent months. Their biggest shakeup in years happened earlier this year when they re-introduced free product listings back into Google Shopping via Google Merchant. Now for the next phase of the shakeup: commission-free access to Buy on…

These 8 WordPress plugins have been exploited by hackers. Update or Uninstall them now.
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These 8 WordPress plugins have been exploited by hackers. Update or Uninstall them now.

With WordPress powering 35% of all the websites on the Internet it is a popular target for hackers. Finding an exploit in one plugin or theme can expose millions of websites. Furthermore, due to the vast number of plugins and themes, there are plenty of things to try and exploit. Recently there has been a…

Google+ is shutting down following massive data leak
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Google+ is shutting down following massive data leak

While millions of companies have been desperately trying to make their website GDPR compliant one of the biggest tech companies of them all has fallen foul of one of the biggest no-nos within the GDPR. A software vulnerability within Google+ exposed hundreds of thousands of users to a data leak during the period of 2015 and 2018 which…