• February 28, 2022

Is Your Printer Spying On You? Did you know that many color laser printers print tiny, nearly invisible yellow dots in a pattern that identifies the printer that printed the output? (photo from Wikipedia) I’m not joking and this isn’t something out of some SCI-FI movie, this is real...

• February 26, 2022

PHP Security Flax Fixed On 02-17-2022, fixes and the vulnerability report (CVE-2021-21708) were released. A proof-of-concept exploit based on using PHP to query a database shows that the bug can be used to crash the PHP process, so a working Denial of Service (DoS) attack is already known to...

• February 24, 2022

WorPress Plugin Updraft and Updraft Plus need to be updated A new ‘vulnerability’ has been exposed in Updraft and Updraft Plus. Updraft and Updraft Plus are WordPress plugins that are designed for backing up, restoring and cloning your WordPress installation. It is described as “The world’s most trusted WordPress...

• February 16, 2022

Gaping Security Hole discovered in WordPress Elementor plugin To be specific, the vulnerability is in the popular Essential Addons for Elementor plugin for WordPress. This is a premium plugin that is used to add features to the Elementor plugin and the solution to fix is to upgrade to the...

• February 10, 2022

Site of The Month – February 2022 – AverageJoeWeekly.com Site of the month is a new feature for our blog where we will feature a Simply Web Services customer and their website. The Simply Web Services team sat down and went through a very long drawn out process, where...

• February 2, 2022

Google – “People Also Ask” Also known as Google Answer Box, Featured Questions, Featured Snippets An “answer box” is a Google feature that is usually displayed in a box that tries to answer a question directly, the answer is usually short and concise. Google’s “People Also Ask” section is a...