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WordPress vulnerabilities more than doubled last year Most have known exploits, experts warn When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Security vulnerabilities affecting differentWordPress pluginssaw a 142% increase in 2021 compared to the year before, experts have revealed. Analyzing the state of theWordPressecosystem, which includes some 58,000 free plugins, as well as “tens of thousands” more available for purchase, Risk Based Security say the spike in the vulnerabilities to hit 2,240 is “alarming”....

Wormable Windows 11 vulnerability could let malware spread like wildfire Microsoft addresses flaw in its January Patch Tuesday release When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Microsoftsays it has found and patched, a critical wormable flaw, affectingWindows 11and Windows Server 2022. The flaw was found in the HTTP Protocol Stack, which is used for processing HTTP requests by the Windows Internet Information Services web server....

Yet another major antivirus is now bundled with a cryptominer Avira’s antivirus tool introduces an option to mine the Ether cryptocurrency When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Fresh off acontroversy over Norton 360, Norton subsidiary Avira is also adding a mining feature for Ether to itsantivirusproduct. The company saysthe feature, which is opt-in (and disabled by default), is designed to “mine cryptocurrency more safely and easily” by turning over idle processing power....

You can finally use a Ryzen 9 5900X with this ASRock motherboard Finally, some support for a 300-series board When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. AMD Ryzen 5000desktopprocessors, which initially didn’t support older X370 motherboards, has finally received its first legacy X370 support frommotherboardvendor ASRock. ASRock announced an official BIOS for its X370 PRO 4 motherboard, which has been listed to support Ryzen 5000 processors....

100-inch 4K TVs are coming, but we’re not ready for them Opinion: Are 100-inch TVs a dream? Or are they an overpriced logistical nightmare? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. For as long as I’ve been covering TVs, TV makers have been pushing the narrative that people enjoy bigger screens - a pretty safe assumption, honestly - and that’s why they’ve continually introduced larger and larger screen sizes to meet demand....

A third of Americans fell victim to cyberattacks last year Poor online habits are putting consumers at risk online When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Just as businesses faced arecord number of cyberattackslast year, so too did consumers with a new study fromNordVPNrevealing that a third of Americans (33%) encountered at least one cybersecurity issue in 2021. Of those affected, half of them (49%) experienced email scams (orphishing emails), while more than a third suffered social media hacks (35%), payment fraud (32%), bank account hacks (29%) andidentity theft(28%)....

According to Garmin, the workout trends of 2021 were yoga, pilates – and lots of mud Interesting results from Garmin’s latest fitness report When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. Home workouts are here to stay – particularly yoga and pilates – but when we exercise outdoors, we’re increasingly willing to get soaked in mud. Those are the findings from the2021 Garmin Connect Fitness report, which looks at trends in the various activities logged using its watches....