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In defence of personas
Personas are a tool that are used a lot in agile development processes. They are authentic representations of different types of users. Through this representation they communicate information about how user behaviour may vary when the site or service is viewed from different circumstances. Personas have been interpreted as tools that encourage developers to ad…
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Trends in WordPress plugin security
Most of my time recently has involved working with WordPress plugin security. In a previous post I talked about some of the vulnerabilities which the dxw Security team have discovered and recently published. One of my other responsibilities is monitoring lots of feeds for plugin security vulnerabilities reported by other people and adding them to…
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Some WordPress Plugin vulnerabilities we’ve published recently
Most of my time recently has involved working with WordPress plugin security and I’d like to have a look at some of the security issues and themes which I’ve come across recently: One of my day-to-day responsibilities is managing the quality assurance and reporting of security vulnerability reports which we produce as a result of…
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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…
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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…
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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…
