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WordPress Plugin Update Sent Admin Credentials & Installed Backdoor

March 7, 2016 at 6:31 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

WordPress Plugin Update Sent Admin Credentials & Installed Backdoor

Do you use a semi-popular WordPress plugin called Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM)?  If so, you will want to stop everything and change ALL your user passwords, roll back (or use the latest release) of CCTM, as well as patch a list of files compromised thanks to the new plugin user who installed a backdoor and […]

Google Analytics Now Removes Referral Spam from Reports Automatically

March 7, 2016 at 5:17 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Analytics Now Removes Referral Spam from Reports Automatically

Google Analytics referral spam has long been a pain point for Google Analytics users.  While Google had previously promised a solution last year, until now, users had to resort to many workarounds in an attempt to sanitize Analytics from showing all the spam.  But as of this weekend, many people were reporting that Google Analytics […]

Google Adds Featured Snippets in Multiple Languages

March 7, 2016 at 4:49 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Adds Featured Snippets in Multiple Languages

Featured snippets have been a staple in the English search results for quite some time.  But now they seem to have been rolled out across additional languages as well. Dr. Pete Meyerswas the first to notice them rolling out on non-English languages, and many others followed up with screenshots for various languages. Gary Illyes from […]

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