WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: March 2021, Part 1
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the first week of March. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on...
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC Achieves SOC2 Type 2 Certification
By Matt Herreras, Director, Technical Marketing for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC VMware Cloud on Dell EMC has passed a SOC2 Type-2 audit adding to the growing list of security and compliance certifications for the service. These include SOC2 Type-1,...
Photon OS 4.0 Release Announcement
Photon OS team is pleased to announce the release of Photon 4.0 following the Beta release in November 2020. The release can be downloaded from the Downloads page in the pre-packaged binary formats including bootable ISO, pre-installed minimal OVA customised for...
WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: February 2021, Part 2
New WordPress plugin and theme vulnerabilities were disclosed during the second half of February. This post covers the recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on...
Customer Service Strategy: 10 Best Practices for Happy Customers
Your customers keep you in business, so you need to have happy (read: loyal) customers if you expect them to come back. It’s far less expensive to maintain relationships with past customers than to develop new relationships. Your energy is...
Expanding Mozilla’s Boards
I’m delighted to share that the Mozilla Foundation and Corporation Boards are each welcoming a new member. Wambui Kinya is Vice President of Partner Engineering at Andela, a Lagos-based global talent network that connects companies with vetted, remote engineers from...
WordPress PHP/Development: The Ultimate Guide
Despite what it may seem like WordPress doesn’t run on fairy dust, no — instead your WordPress website is powered by a server-side programming language called PHP and MySQL databases. In this guide I’ll be showing you what PHP in...
WordPress Post Types: The Complete Guide
If you’re the type of WordPress developer that cares a lot about design and organization, it’s time to fully understand WordPress post types. As you well know, not all WordPress sites are simple blogs. Often, developers require more than the...
WordPress Debugging: The Essential Guide
Regardless of what level of WordPress developer you are, there is one problem you’ll constantly face: bugs. Even the most seasoned developers cannot consistently code in a manner that doesn’t produce bugs. As a matter of fact, debugging WordPress actually...
What Vitamins, Supplements and Nutraceuticals Brands Must Know About Establishing A Loyalty Program
As a vitamins, supplements, and nutraceuticals eCommerce retailer, if you’re missing a loyalty program, then you’re missing a lot. In today’s day and age, loyalty programs give a unique opportunity for eCommerce stores to form deeper, closer relationships with their...
Evolving the VMware vSphere Security Configuration Guides
If you’ve watched any of my YouTube videos over the last year or so you know that I’m fond of Bruce Schneier’s essay “The Process of Security.” He wrote it in the year 2000, and in it he espouses the...
Next steps on trustworthy AI: transparency, bias and better data governance
Over the last few years, Mozilla has turned its attention to AI, asking: how can we make the data driven technologies we all use everyday more trustworthy? How can we make things like social networks, home assistants and search engines...