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Next week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about his company's failure to prevent the data firm Cambridge Analytica[1] from siphoning off information belonging to up to 87 million people[2]...
Read more: Facebook Messenger's 'Unsend' Feature Is What Happens When You Scramble
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Abandonware is a term used for a piece of software that is no longer developed or supported by the original author. In the Joomla-world, abandonware can include third party extensions such as components, modules, plugins, templates and/or libraries. ...
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Read more: The Pro Marketer's Product Launch Checklist for 2018 - Whiteboard Friday
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Tweaks to the algorithm and changes to how search results are presented are often lamented by frustrated marketers, but these evolutions can also present valuable new opportunities for making contentRead more: 5 ways to make your website stand out in the SERPs
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With Facebook, you -- and your data -- are the product. (Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) Facebook just can't catch a break -- not that many think it should.
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It's been almost a month since the CambridgeRead more: On Facebook, Zuckerberg gets privacy and you get nothing
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We previously announced plans to deprecate Chrome’s trust in the Symantec certificate authority (including Symantec-owned brands like Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL). This post outlines how...
Read more: Distrust of the Symantec PKI: Immediate action needed by site operators
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Name your favorite open source project, and the odds are good—very good—that a small handful of contributors account for the vast majority of significant development thereof. The odds are just as good that most of those...
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Joomla 3.8.6 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla addressing one security vulnerability and including over 60 bug fixes and improvements....
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Since version 1.5, the Joomla CMS contains a Gmail authentication plugin. Its main purpose was to illustrate how you can build a Joomla authentication plugin for an external service with a ‘real world’ example. The web has...
Read more: Removal of the Gmail Authentication Plugin as of Joomla 4.0