It is getting colder outside and the holiday shopping season, Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all looming. Is your Magento site ready for the uplift in traffic and special holidays promotions everyone is waiting for? Black Friday 2015 will be held on Friday 27 November 2015, although consumers can expect to see deals during […]
Update: 18th November 2015, Magento 2 has now been officially released See the official Magento release Our team have gone through extensive Magento 2.0 training. We’ve put our hardware and software though a rigorous testing programme over the last few months. We’ve spent more than 200 hours of internal sysops and devops time ensuring Magento […]
We are currently seeing an attack on Magento sites where hackers are injecting malicious scripts that create iframes from guruincsite dot com. Google has already blacklisted many sites due to this new malware. Of the 22 pages tested on the site over the past 90 days, 11 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without […]
Magento have released a new patch (SUPEE-6482) that addresses 4 security issues identified through our comprehensive security program. This patch resolves two issues related to APIs and two cross-site scripting risks. There are no confirmed reports of attacks related to these issues to-date, but it is important that you immediately deploy the patch in order to protect […]
We all knew it was on the cards but eBay has confirmed previous rumors that it’s selling its enterprise services business, eBay Enterprise, for $925 million. The unit specialises in developing and managing ecommerce sites for retailers that are looking to re-create their real-world business on the Internet. This includes Magento. In the […]
We have just set up a really nice server for a customer, it’s the new Dell Poweredge R430. With 32 Cores and 128Gb of ram, this monster really packs a punch for it’s size. With two Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v3 (20M Cache, 2.40 GHz) that turbo up to 3.2HGz giving 32 cores […]
Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 is now available for DOWNLOAD. This latest release provides users with enhancements that make it easier to build and maintain a high quality and secure site. Magento Community Edition 1.9.2 updates include: Technology updates and quality improvements: This new release includes the latest versions of the Zend 1 Framework and […]
HTTP/2 contains a number of advances that will allow the internet not only to be faster but also safer than ever by implementing: Google, SPDY and Browser Support The most important aspect of the web’s new protocol was Google’s announcement to drop support for SPDY in favour of HTTP/2. By adopting HTTP/2, Google has opened […]
Any WordPress Plugin or theme that leverages the genericons package is vulnerable to a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to an insecure file included with genericons. The JetPack plugin (reported to have over 1 million active installs) and the TwentyFifteen theme (installed by default) are found to be vulnerable. The exact count is difficult to measure, but […]
Magento Enterprise Edition 1.14.2 and Community Edition 1.9.2 has been released giving users even more power to accelerate their growth through enhanced merchandising tools and deeper business insights. Key new features include: New automated product category sorting capabilities for Enterprise Edition that make merchandising faster and consistently highlight top performing and profitable products. Integration of […]