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COMPANY NEWS:  Key findings from the research also show a rise in double-extortion attacks, self-managed websites targeted for malware delivery, threat actors continuing to exploit older software vulnerabilities, and more.

Google has dropped plans to implement ad-targeting technology known as Federated Learning of Cohorts and instead come up with a replacement known as Topics.

Vulnerability intelligence, breach data and risk ratings vendor Risk Based Security has warned about the rising number of vulnerabilities in third-party WordPress plugins, pointing out that 2240 such flaws had been reported in 2021.

The globe's biggest web hosting company, GoDaddy, has announced that more than a million customers of its Managed WordPress product had their email addresses and customer numbers exposed, following a breach.

COMPANY NEWS: Fastly, a global edge cloud platform provider, today announced it has been appointed to the cloud marketplace (CMP) managed by the Australian Government's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA), reducing barriers to working with government departments and agencies.

The project that manages the WordPress content management system, which claims to power about 41% of the Web, will treat Google's new ad-tracking technology, Federated Learning of Cohorts, as a security issue and block it from working.

The PHP project has issued an update about the security problem it made public on 30 March, saying that it was now believed that the git.php.net server was not compromised.

The PHP project has been forced to move its operations from its own git server to the Microsoft-owned software code repository GitHub after two malicious commits were discovered in the php-srx repository in the name of founder Rasmus Lerdorf and developer Nikita Popov.

In one well-known novel, Atlas famously shrugged, and the world tilted off its axis, but in WP Engine's world, Atlas is the headless future of Wordpress, delivering "exponentially faster dynamic sites" that shrug off slowness forever. 

Domain registrar GoDaddy has announced a plugin bundle expansion for its managed WordPress ecommerce customers, which it says features free access to a library of over 75 premium WooCommerce extensions.

Websites can be denied renewal of the certificates that ensure they are secure due to false positives, if Google lists such sites as not being safe for browsing. Visitors could be denied entry if they visit the site using Chrome or a browser built using the Chrome codebase, a Melbourne developer says.

Australian ecommerce platform BigCommerce has integrated WordPress into its platform in a move which it says gives merchants the ability to grow an online business at scale without compromising site content or user experiences.

A number of legitimate websites have been compromised and are spreading Windows malware to users through fake alerts for browser updates that resemble the original to a marked degree.

WP Engine, the leading provider for managed WordPress hosting, has opened an office in Brisbane to support what it claims is a growing customer base in Australia and New Zealand.

Open source development tools provider DRUD Tech has released DDEV Community, a tool that can automate workflows and Web application development with content management systems like Drupal and WordPress.

The number of hacked websites running the open-source content management system WordPress is increasing by leaps and bounds, according to Mark Maunder, the chief executive of a company named Word fence that sells a plugin that serves as a firewall for the CMS.

The cyber security company Trend Micro has some egg on its face after one of its websites, which is used to provide cyber security news to the public, was hacked and fake articles placed.

A massive 10,613 sites on the dark web have been taken down by a group affiliated with Anonymous. It claims that child pornography comprised more than half the data stored in the websites, along with details of nearly 381,000 users.

Matt Mullenweg, the man behind the popular WordPress open source content management system, has accused the people behind the Wix mobile app of stealing code from his software.

Most of the case studies of various cyber infringements detailed in the Australian Cyber Security Centre's 2016 report have one thing in common: they relate to threats that are only possible on Microsoft Windows systems.