by Mike | Oct 10, 2014 | TechAlert, TechNews
Hewlett-Packard has recalled 5,577,000 notebook computer AC power cords in the US due to a problem with the AC Power Cord. The cord can overheat posing a potential fire and burn hazard. Per the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): This recall involves...
by Mike | Sep 4, 2014 | TechNews, WordPress
Named after Jazz great, Benny Goodman, WordPress 4.o was released this week and brings with it a number of great new features to your Post, Page, and Media management experience! All ESC! Technologies Group clients who subscribe to one of our WordPress Maintenance...
by Mike | Sep 4, 2014 | TechAlert, TechNews, WordPress
WordPress Plugins A serious vulnerability has been discovered in an outdated release of the excellent Slider Revolution plugin for WordPress.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...
by Mike | Aug 13, 2014 | TechAlert, TechNews, WordPress
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...
by Mike | May 7, 2014 | Company News, TechAlert, TechNews
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...
by Mike | Nov 12, 2013 | TechAlert, TechNews
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....