18.01.2011
Internet & Industry News
All business website owners should be aware that from 1st March 2011 all marketing communications on websites will be regulated by the Advertisting Standards Authority (ASA). Make sure your site complies. From 1st March, marketing communications on companies’ own websites and in other third party space under their control, such as Facebook and Twitter, will have to adhere to the non-broadcast advertising rules as set out in the CAP Code. Find out more and get advice.
07.01.2011
Internet & Industry News
According to many The amount of junk e-mail being sent across the globe has seen a dramatic fall in recent months. The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but the Christmas period saw a precipitous decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages being sent each day in August, but just 50 billion in December. Read more via the related BBC News Article and the Symantec Report
05.01.2011
General AKIS News
Please note that our Starter Package is no longer available and has now been discontinued. Our lowest price entry level website package is our Standard Website WEB.05 Package – Offering a 5 page website for only £299.
30.12.2010
AKIS Web Hosting, Important AKIS Announcements, Internet & Industry News
WordPress 3.0.4 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions. This is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. The WordPress team rate this release as “critical”. We will be upgrading all AKIS full service clients in the next 24 hours. AKIS Hosting / Self-Service clients should update their own installations ASAP as a priority.
08.12.2010
AKIS Web Hosting, Important AKIS Announcements, Internet & Industry News
WordPress 3.0.3 is available and is a security update for all previous WordPress versions. This release fixes issues in the remote publishing interface, which under certain circumstances allowed Author- and Contributor-level users to improperly edit, publish, or delete posts. These issues only affect sites that have remote publishing enabled. Remote publishing is disabled by default, but you may have enabled it to use a remote publishing client such as one of the WordPress mobile apps. You can check these settings on the “Settings → Writing” screen.
01.12.2010
AKIS Web Hosting, Important AKIS Announcements, Internet & Industry News
WordPress 3.0.2 is available and is a mandatory security update for all previous WordPress versions. This maintenance release fixes a moderate security issue that could allow a malicious Author-level user to gain further access to the site, addresses a handful of bugs, and provides some additional security enhancements. We will be upgrading all AKIS full service clients in the next 24 hours. AKIS Hosting / Self-Service clients should update their own installations ASAP as a priority. You should update immediately even if you do not have untrusted users.