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WordPress Gravity Forms developer hacked to push backdoored plugins

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-30 13:30:07

The popular WordPress plugin Gravity Forms has been compromised in what seems a supply-chain attack where manual installers from the official website were infected with a backdoor. Gravity Forms is a premium plugin for creating contact, payment, and other online forms. Based on statistic data from the vendor, the product is isntalled on around one million websites, some belonging to well-known organizations like Airbnb, Nike, ESPN, Unicef, Google, and Yale. Remote code execution on the server

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I finally found a wall charger than can replace my AirTag when I travel - and it's still on sale (but hurry)

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-07-31 05:43:28

ZDNET's key takeaways Twelve South's PlugBug is a wall charger optimized for iOS, offering native Find My support. It's especially convenient for frequent flyers who are prone to misplacing their vital charging cables. The device is pricey but worth it for its bulk, versatility, and convenience. $129.95 at Apple The PlugBug Travel 120W is currently on sale during the last day of Amazon Prime Day for $85, which is $35, or 29% off its original price of $120. On my first trip abroad, one of my

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Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-01 12:51:45

What Happened On January 5, 2024, a Boeing 737-9 airplane operated by Alaska Airlines as flight 1282 experienced an in-flight separation of the left mid exit door (MED) plug and rapid depressurization when climbing through about 14,830 ft after takeoff from Portland International Airport (PDX), Portland, Oregon. One flight attendant and 7 passengers received minor injuries; the captain, the first officer, 3 flight attendants, and 164 passengers were uninjured; and the airplane sustained subst

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As Thin as Paper, This 15″ External Monitor is Almost Free as Amazon Clears Stock

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-08-08 00:45:07

Prime Day is the ideal time to save on more than the biggest brands such as Apple or Samsung: It’s also an opportunity to find electronics that may not have been at the top of your wish list but have the potential to change your daily life. This year’s most anticipated deal includes the famous Arzopa portable monitor, a 15.6-inch Full HD display which is now 44% off, falling to an all-time low. This monitor usually runs $109, but with Prime Day, you can get yours for an astonishing $61. This di

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How I used ChatGPT to analyze, debug, and rewrite a broken plugin from scratch - in an hour

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-08 03:00:00

NiroDesign/Getty Images I am not a morning person, yet my alarm goes off at 5:30 am every day. This is because the editorial team I work with is on the East Coast, and I'm in Oregon. I do a quick check of email and Slack to make sure nothing is on fire, then settle down to a relaxed first cup of coffee. Once caffeinated, I'm fairly gruntled. Unfortunately, one day in early June, my website was, at least figuratively, on fire. My hosting provider sent me a notice telling me that one of the plug

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How I used ChatGPT to quickly fix a critical plugin - without touching a line of code

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-09 09:03:00

PM Images / Getty Images I am not a morning person, yet my alarm goes off at 5:30 am every day. This is because the editorial team I work with is on the East Coast, and I'm in Oregon. I do a quick check of email and Slack to make sure nothing is on fire, then settle down to a relaxed first cup of coffee. Once caffeinated, I'm fairly gruntled. Unfortunately, one day in early June, my website was, at least figuratively, on fire. My hosting provider sent me a notice telling me that one of the plu

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How I used ChatGPT to quickly fix a critical open-source plugin - without touching a line of code

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-08-09 21:30:00

PM Images / Getty Images I am not a morning person, yet my alarm goes off at 5:30 am every day. This is because the editorial team I work with is on the East Coast, and I'm in Oregon. I do a quick check of email and Slack to make sure nothing is on fire, then settle down to a relaxed first cup of coffee. Once caffeinated, I'm fairly gruntled. Unfortunately, one day in early June, my website was, at least figuratively, on fire. My hosting provider sent me a notice telling me that one of the plu

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Forminator plugin flaw exposes WordPress sites to takeover attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-08-16 05:38:32

The Forminator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to an unauthenticated arbitrary file deletion flaw that could enable full site takeover attacks. The security issue is tracked as CVE-2025-6463 and has a high-severity impact (CVSS 8.8 score). It impacts all versions of Forminator up to 1.44.2. Forminator Forms is a plugin developed by WPMU DEV. It offers a flexible, visual drag‑and‑drop builder to help users create and embed a wide range of form-based content on WordPress sites. According to

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Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-18 23:07:59

ToplingDB: A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage ToplingDB is developed and maintained by Topling Inc. It is built with RocksDB. See ToplingDB Branch Name Convention. ToplingDB's submodule rockside is the entry point of ToplingDB, see SidePlugin wiki. ToplingDB has much more key features than RocksDB: SidePlugin enables users to write a json(or yaml) to define DB configs Embedded Http Server enables users to view almost all DB info on web, this is a component of SidePlugin Embedd

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I finally found a wall charger than can replace my AirTag when I travel - and its still on sale

zdnet.com Allison Jewell 2025-08-20 05:13:25

ZDNET's key takeaways Twelve South's PlugBug is a wall charger optimized for iOS, offering native Find My support. It's especially convenient for frequent flyers who are prone to misplacing their vital charging cables. The device is pricey but worth it for its bulk, versatility, and convenience. $129.95 at Apple The PlugBug Travel 120W is currently on sale for $111, which is $10, or 8% off its original price of $120. On my first trip abroad, one of my main concerns was purchasing wall adapte

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Error handling in Rust

news.ycombinator.com Felix Knorr 2025-08-21 13:28:25

On Error Handling in Rust The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce, and each public function that returns a Result will use said error enum. This means, that a function will return an error enum, containing error variants that the function cannot even produce. If you match on this error enum, you will have to manually distinguish whi

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How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-08-26 21:06:00

What just happened? Jokingly referred to as "Plug and Pray" due to its notorious unreliability, the Plug and Play standard was nonetheless a pivotal advancement in simplifying hardware and peripheral configuration during the early Windows 9x era. Beyond easing setup for end users, the technology also played an unexpected role in exposing a cartel of PC manufacturers that had been exploiting a hardware feature to provide full versions of trial software packages to their customers. Microsoft vete

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The best smart plugs in 2025

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-28 08:01:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . Smart plugs aren’t the most complicated smart home device — they really just turn stuff on and off — but the best smart plugs can make life a little easier, which is what we want from household automation. They’re easy to use, too, since you don’t have to install them like a smart swit

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Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-01 13:43:42

I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug. It's got a switch on the side to manually toggle the switch on and off. It connects to WiFi, so you can read the state of the plug via API. When you turn the switch on, the script updates /etc/hosts to effectively block websites of your choosing: 127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 x.com 127.0.0.1 instagram.com 127.0.0.1 youtube.com 127.0.0.1 reddit.com

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All the news about EV charging in the US

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-06-02 13:49:43

The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla’s plug was long compared to Apple and Lightning. But while Apple eventually adopted USB-C, Tesla is opening up its connector, renaming it the North American Charging Standard (NACS), and trying to shove CCS o

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Latest Tech News

WordPress Gravity Forms developer hacked to push backdoored plugins

I finally found a wall charger than can replace my AirTag when I travel - and it's still on sale (but hurry)

Final report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 in-flight exit door plug separation

As Thin as Paper, This 15″ External Monitor is Almost Free as Amazon Clears Stock

How I used ChatGPT to analyze, debug, and rewrite a broken plugin from scratch - in an hour

How I used ChatGPT to quickly fix a critical plugin - without touching a line of code

How I used ChatGPT to quickly fix a critical open-source plugin - without touching a line of code

Forminator plugin flaw exposes WordPress sites to takeover attacks

Show HN: ToplingDB - A Persistent Key-Value Store for External Storage

I finally found a wall charger than can replace my AirTag when I travel - and its still on sale

Error handling in Rust

How PC makers exploited BIOS copyright strings to unlock trial software during the Windows 95 era

The best smart plugs in 2025

Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot

All the news about EV charging in the US

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