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  • Hello MongooseWP

    We have recently launched MongooseWP – an email subscription service to alert website developers to security vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. It’s unfortunately very common for WordPress plugins to have vulnerabilities. As part of our managed hosting service we review plugins for security issues. We’ve found that over half of the plugins we’ve tested to date contain serious security vulnerabilities. Most vulnerabilities…

  • Introducing Dave Mann

    After 14 years in government digital, I’m excited to be the newest member of the dxw team. Harry recently wrote about what business development looks like for an agency like dxw and I’m here to help shape that as head of engagement. I’ve joined from the Government Digital Service (GDS) where I was a product…

  • Goodbye Citrulu

    3 years ago we launched a product called Citrulu. It monitored live websites to check that they were working as expected. The idea was to go one better than simple uptime monitoring (which just checks that a site successfully responds with something) by letting users describe what their site looks like when it’s working, in natural…

  • IPv6 readiness of .gov.uk

    IPv6 is more important than ever as all but one of the regional internet registries are running out of IPv4 addresses and IPv6-only phone services start to appear. IPv4 has space for only about 4 billion people to have their own IP address (4 × 109), while IPv6 has space for about 10 octillion addresses…

  • Being a non-techie working in tech

    You can sometimes spend your whole working life in a ‘comfort zone’ where you feel familiar enough with everything that’s going on around you. You might even feel like you are an expert in a particular field and have an added confidence in your step as you merrily skip to work in the morning. I…

  • The Parliamentary Digital Service has a new blog

    Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working with the newly formed Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) to create a new blogging platform. PDS has formed to improve digital services and will use the platform to update service users on the work they are doing, with other departments and groups within Parliament. We were asked…