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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…