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Updates of Note: September 2025
In addition to the regular feature and product patches typically released, there were a few updates of note last month that may be applicable to your site including: Security-related Patches in September: WordPress (the "engine" that powers your site) received an...
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WordPress Security: Slider Revolution Patch
WordPress Plugins A serious vulnerability has been discovered in an outdated release of the excellent Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress. An unpatched version of the plugin may allow a hacker to download any file from your system including critical WordPress core...
WordPress Security: Core & Plugin Patches
WordPress Update An important security update was released for WordPress Core this week when version 3.9.2 was made available to patch a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing. In addition, several other vulnerabilities were patched including: Fixes...
Woodstock Chamber SOHO Presentation: Heartbleed One Month Later
Heartbleed’s been garnering a lot of press in the past month, and with good reason: with over a half-million websites affected and tens of thousands of routers, storage servers, firewalls, video cameras, and more vulnerable to the bug, it’s one of the largest security...
Tech!Alert: Microsoft Patches IE Zero Day Exploit
Long-time Windows users know to be on the lookout for security updates from Microsoft the second Tuesday of every month. However, this month's payload of patches includes a fix for an Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Zero-Day?...
Tech!Alert: New CryptoLocker Ransomware Hits Homes and Small Business
It's not unusual to see (and easily dismiss) breathless headlines proclaiming "worst virus ever!" After all, most of these sensationalistic-type headlines lead to blog posts that share little "new" information about malicious software and, instead, serve only to help...
ESC! Technologies Group Joins Dell’s ParnerDirect Program
Woodstock, IL -- ESC! Technologies Group is pleased to announced we are now a Registered Dell Partner in Dell's PartnerDirect program. This new business relationship with Dell will allow ESC! Technologies Group to better serve our customers through improved one-stop...
Tech!Note: Google’s Shared Endorsements Policy and You
If you use Google's services, and that includes Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google+, Maps, Google Groups, Google Play, Google Apps for Business, or any of myriad other services the Mountain View, CA company offers AND you've created an account to use those services --...
Woodstock Chamber SOHO Presentation: 5 Techniques to Improved Web Presence
In this video of the October 2nd, 2013 presentation to the Woodstock Chamber of Commerce SOHO Group, Mike leads a talk focusing on 5 techniques every business can use to improve their web presence. Below are links to many of the products and services mentioned during...
PPANI October Presentation Notes
I'd like to thank the Professional Photographers Associate of Northern Illinois for allowing me to speak to them this morning about Password Security and Backup Strategies for Photographers. Due to a technical glitch (on my part), only a portion of the video from...
Tech!Alert: Adobe Issues Customer Security Advisory
On October 4th, 2013 Adobe Systems Incorporated issued a critical Security Advisory to their customer base alerting users that hackers gained access to Adobe's databases and harvested nearly 3 million Adobe IDs, encrypted passwords, encrypted credit or debit card...