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On Thursday 15th May we shall be celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) by engaging with friends, family and customers on this important subject, which directly impacts every single one of us at some point in our lives.
The purpose of Global Accessibility Awareness Day or GAAD is to get "everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, and the more than One Billion people with disabilities/impairments."
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Read more: Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is on Thursday
In our previous blog post:
Is your website impacted by the UK Online Safety Act 2023?
we referenced guidance published by Ofcom to help website administrators better understand how the Online Safety Act 2023 might impact their website, themselves and their organisation.
We have since found a better place from which to start this journey and a useful Online Safety Regulation Checker.
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Read more: Check if the UK Online Safety Act 2023 applies to your website
The Hacker News reported on 28 April 2025 that "Wordpress CMS WooCommerce extension users have been targeted by a fake patch phishing campaign deploying site backdoors".
Joomla! CMS users should also be vigilant to avoid falling prey to similar such attacks.
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Read more: Phishing attack targeting Wordpress is a timely reminder for us all
The Hacker News recently published an article (see link below) which identified three common password cracking techniques used by crackers (commonly referred to as hackers).
The article introduction began by stating that "passwords are rarely appreciated until a security breach occurs" and "the importance of a strong password becomes clear only when faced with the consequences of a weak one"!
Which begs the qustion, how vulnerable are the passwords you use to the most common password-cracking methods?
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Read more: How should you respond to these three common Password-cracking Techniques?
Back in December 2023 McAfee published a blog post advising how to avoid being caught out by Quishing or QR code scams.
The blog post related the story of a UK woman who had unwittingly become the victim of such an attack when parking her car.
She scanned the provided QR code with her phone but it took her to a phony parking payment site which then stole her card details.
Fortunately her bank blocked several attempted fraudulent transactions.
But that was not the end of the matter.
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The UK Digital Markets Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act 2024 received Royal Assent on 24 May 2024.
As a result, significant new consumer protection rules will begin to take effect during 2025.
For example, with effect from 6 April 2025 online platforms are legally obligated to implement measures to prevent the posting of fabricated reviews and to remove existing ones.
Did you know about these changes?
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Read more: Are you affected by the UK Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act?
- Useful advice if you are given a streaming device as a gift
- Ask your hosting company for PHP 8.3
- Search the internet without being tracked using DuckDuckGo
- Landline or analogue phones are being replaced. What could possibly go wrong?
- Three common SEO misconceptions in 2024
- Phishing attacks are on the increase
- Tell your friends about DuckDuckGo
- 2024 Browser Security Report uncovers how every web session could be a security minefield
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- World Backup Day should really be called Resilience Day
- Joomla! is now on the WC Authoring Tools List
- Is your website impacted by the UK Online Safety Act 2023?
- The Joomla! Project has co-founded the Open Website Alliance
- Krystal Hosting again named UK’s Best Hosted Service!
- Protect Your Privacy
- What stricter data privacy laws may mean for your organisation
- Joomla! Project further enhances security becoming a CVE Numbering Authority
- Safer Internet Day
- Use an SSL Certificate with Your Website
- Keep yourself informed about security threats
- Always be on the look out for Joomla! updates
- Beware telephone scammers
