Architect sues over blog campaign that claims he has a ‘micro penis’
Google “John Wender,” the name of a manager at New York architecture firm Bartolone Wender Architects, and you’ll find a slew of eerily similar rants. At least a half-dozen WordPress sites with titles...
View ArticleTumblr, WordPress, and Wikipedia just encrypted your Web activities
A coalition of major websites including Tumblr, Wikipedia, and WordPress are announcing a switch to SSL encryption as part of today’s Reset the Net campaign, a day of activism on the one year...
View ArticleThousands of websites hacked through new WordPress vulnerability
Tens of thousands of websites running on WordPress, the most popular blogging software on the Internet, have been compromised due to a newly discovered vulnerability. A torrent of blogs have already...
View ArticleWeird Twitter’s plagiarism police have a new target: Malcolm Gladwell
Weird Twitter wags @blippoblappo and @crushingbort—the anonymous pair who busted BuzzFeed’s Benny Johnson and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria for rampant and consistent plagiarism—may have just hooked their...
View ArticleAnti-gay activist ordered to pay $25,000 for bad DMCA claim
The Internet is riddled with instances of someone falsely claiming they own a copyright on something they don’t, effectively censoring it using the U.S.’s controversial Digital Millennium Copyright...
View ArticleBan against a single blog post leads Turkish ISPs to censor all of WordPress
Last week, a Turkish court ordered an access ban on a single post in the vast sea of more than 60 million individual blogs on WordPress. But for many users, that meant their Internet service providers...
View ArticleKim Kardashian’s website is full of dangerous security holes
If you’re a Kim Kardashian superfan, you might be super screwed. Kardashian’s personal website is full of security holes that put visitors at risk of malware and potential identity theft, the Daily...
View ArticleAT&T, Verizon earn failing grades on latest EFF privacy scorecard
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a consumer advocacy group specializing in digital rights and freedoms, wants the world’s biggest tech companies to improve their government data-request...
View ArticleHackers are infecting WordPress websites to mine cryptocurrencies
Hackers have targeted more than 2,000 WordPress websites to steal login credentials and tax visitors’ computers to mine cryptocurrency, researchers at security firm Sucuri discovered recently....
View ArticleA WordPress bug is making this succulent appear on a bunch of sites
The internet was covered in succulents on Tuesday afternoon thanks to a WordPress bug. Several popular websites experienced technical issues after a major outage involving the web hosting service....
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