Emergency Update: Security flaw in NextGen Gallery Plugin – all sites updated

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Hi all, We’ve updated all hosted sites with the NextGen Gallery plugin installed to the latest version. There was a significant security hole in older versions, which would have allowed an attacker to retrieve info from the site’s database. More here: https://blog.sucuri.net/2017/02/sql-injection-vulnerability-nextgen-gallery-wordpress.html -TS    

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Problem with latest Yoast SEO plugin (wordpress-seo)

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Howdy all, The latest update to Yoast SEO will break sites running on PHP 7.0 – our default version. We’ve (hopefully) disabled updates for that plugin by changing permissions on the folder to “read-only”.  As soon as we hear of a fix, we’ll change its permissions back, so it can be updated. -TS    

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How your computer can find a website by its name. – DeGreekifying Technology #1

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This is the first in a series of posts designed to help explain how computers and the Internet work in plain English. This series was inspired by our friend Mercedes M. Yardley. Have you ever wondered how your web browser can find a website like Google automatically? You can’t just key a name into your […]

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DeGreekifying Technology

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I was talking with my friend Mercedes M. Yardley a few days ago about all the spam she receives and when I asked if her ISP used any tools to block some of it, she didn’t know and said that “computer talk is Greek to me”. Now she’s a brilliant author that could master Greek […]

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Welcome to the new Techsurgeons Site

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Thanks for taking the time to visit us. After helping many of our customers implement websites of their own, we figured that we should redo our archaic site.  The new site is pretty basic.  We’re using WordPress with the wonderful Thesis theme.  We chose WordPress and Thesis because we needed a simple solution, we’re far […]

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