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Tom Tugendhat, Foreign Affairs Select Committee chair, says he was advised Gmail was 'more secure'.

The YouTuber has not yet commented on allegations from Paradise, a TikTok star.

NI Screen and Hypixel Studios launch incentive to encourage people to work in local gaming industry.

The overhaul will force the Alibaba-backed group to become a financial holding firm.

Drones capable of 90mph are being raced in a league which supporters say is close to the big time.

The US tech giant is buying artificial intelligence firm Nuance, best known for developing Apple's Siri.

Iran blames Israel, but was this a cyber-attack or physical act of sabotage?

Tuesday: When a teacher marched to the Capitol, it started a story that tells us a lot about the shifting political dynamics of Orange County.

With Covid cases rising, more experts think the U.S. should start delaying second vaccine shots.

Making the digital artworks requires colossal amounts of computing power, and that means greenhouse gases.

Officer William F. Evans will be the second Capitol Police officer to be so honored after dying in the line of duty this year.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control will stop using the vaccine at federal sites and urge states to do so as well while they examine the safety issues.

Hours after body camera video of the killing was released, protesters gathered outside the Brooklyn Center police station despite a new curfew for much of the Twin Cities region.

George Floyd’s brother testified tearfully about their childhood. The trial continued with the backdrop of a fatal police shooting that kicked off protests in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday.

Joomla 3.9.25 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 9 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 40 bug fixes and improvements.

Once again the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 7 release, and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 5.

Joomla 3.9.24 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Once again the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 6 release, and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 4.

Open Source Matters Inc, the organisation behind Joomla!, and ScalaHosting are pleased to announce their strategic partnership.

Joomla 3.9.23 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 7 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today the CVE Program authorizes the project as a CVE Numbering Authority.

ConsenSys, a key player in crypto and a major proponent of the Ethereum blockchain, has raised a $65 million funding round from J.P. Morgan, Mastercard, and UBS AG, as well as major blockchain companies Protocol Labs, the Maker Foundation, Fenbushi, The LAO and Alameda Research. Additional investors include CMT Digital and the Greater Bay Area Homeland Development […]

Spotify this morning officially announced the limited U.S. release of its first hardware device, the oddly named Car Thing, aimed at Spotify Premium subscribers. The new device — which Spotify is surprisingly offering for free plus shipping — has evolved substantially from the version that first began testing in 2019. This upgraded model has a […]

Microsoft is understandably positioning the latest additions to its Surface line as productivity devices. Laptop sales, in particular, have jumped amid the pandemic, as many have scrambled to shift to a work from home setting. With that in mind, the latest version of the Surface Laptop is far and away the headline item amid a […]

The new Surface Laptop was the marquee arrival in today’s Microsoft announcement, but boy howdy, the company also dropped a whole bunch of new accessories. It’s a pretty broad range of new devices, including some small updates to existing products and entirely new entries. But there’s one clear through line across them all: Teams. Microsoft […]

Netflix is giving its Kids’ profiles a revamp, the company announced today. While adults’ profiles are personalized with horizontal rows of recommendations that appear as they scroll down, the Kids profiles’ redesign is more visual in nature. When kids now log in to their account on a TV, they’ll be greeted with their favorite titles […]

Workflow automation has been one of the key trends this year so far, and Zoho, a company known for its suite of affordable business tools has joined the parade with a new low code workflow product called Qntrl (pronounced control). Zoho’s Rodrigo Vaca, who is in charge of Qntrl’s marketing says that most of the […]

Since ride-hailing companies like Uber and Bolt disrupted the transportation industry, one of the thorns on their sides has been traffic congestion and pollution. Research has shown that trips from ride-hailing cars have more emissions than those from personal cars. To reduce their carbon footprint and solve the latter problem, both companies have floated the […]

Want to find broken images on your website? Here's how you can do broken image testing on your website using Selenium in Java, Python, C#, and PHP.

In this example, you will learn to safely create a nested directory using Python.

I am conducting 2 repeat sessions for a workshop on "Writing Python modules in Rust". The first session is on 16th April, 1500 UTC onwards, and the repeat session will be on 18th April 0900 UTC. More details can be found in this issue. You don't have to have any prior Rust knowledge. I will be providing working code, and we will go very slowly to have a working Python module with useful functions in it. If you are planning to attend or know anyone else who may want to join, then please point them to the issue link.

I’ve made a change to coverage.py, and I could use your help testing it before it’s released to the world. tl;dr: install this and let me know if you don’t like the results: pip install coverage==5.6b1 What’s changed? Previously, coverage.py didn’t understand about third-party code you had installed. With no options specified, it would measure and report on that code, for example in site-packages. A common solution was to use --source=. to only measure code in the current directory tree. But many people put their virtualenv in the current directory, so third-party code installed into the virtualenv would still get reported.Now, coverage.py understands where third-party code gets installed, and won’t measure code it finds there. This should produce more useful results with less work on your part.This was a bit tricky because the --source option can also specify an importable name instead of a directory, and it had to still measure that code even if it was installed where third-party code goes.As of now, there is no way to change this new behavior. Third-party code is never measured.This is kind of a big change, and there could easily be unusual arrangements that aren’t handled properly. I would like to find out about those before an official release. Try the new version and let me know what you find out:pip install coverage==5.6b1In particular, I would like to know if any of the code you wanted measured wasn’t measured, or if there is code being measured that “obviously” shouldn’t be. Testing on Debian (or a derivative like Ubuntu) would be helpful; I know they have different installation schemes.If you see a problem, write up an issue. Thanks for helping.

One of the great promises of computers is that they will make our work faster and easier, so why do we all spend so much time manually copying data from websites, or entering information into web forms, or any of the other tedious tasks that take up our time? As developers our first inclination is to "just write a script" to automate things, but how do you share that with your non-technical co-workers? In this episode Antti Karjalainen, CEO and co-founder of Robocorp, explains how Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help us all cut down on time-wasting tasks and let the computers do what they're supposed to. He shares how he got involved in the RPA industry, his work with Robot Framework and RPA framework, how to build and distribute bots, and how to decide if a task is worth automating. If you're sick of spending your time on mind-numbing copy and paste then give this episode a listen and then let the robots do the work for you.Summary One of the great promises of computers is that they will make our work faster and easier, so why do we all spend so much time manually copying data from websites, or entering information into web forms, or any of the other tedious tasks that take up our time? As developers our first inclination is to "just write a script" to automate things, but how do you share that with your non-technical co-workers? In this episode Antti Karjalainen, CEO and co-founder of Robocorp, explains how Robotic Process Automation (RPA) can help us all cut down on time-wasting tasks and let the computers do what they’re supposed to. He shares how he got involved in the RPA industry, his work with Robot Framework and RPA framework, how to build and distribute bots, and how to decide if a task is worth automating. If you’re sick of spending your time on mind-numbing copy and paste then give this episode a listen and then let the robots do the work for you. Announcements Hello and welcome to Podcast.__init__, the podcast about Python and the people who make it great. When you’re ready to launch your next app or want to try a project you hear about on the show, you’ll need somewhere to deploy it, so take a look at our friends over at Linode. With the launch of their managed Kubernetes platform it’s easy to get started with the next generation of deployment and scaling, powered by the battle tested Linode platform, including simple pricing, node balancers, 40Gbit networking, dedicated CPU and GPU instances, and worldwide data centers. Go to pythonpodcast.com/linode and get a $100 credit to try out a Kubernetes cluster of your own. And don’t forget to thank them for their continued support of this show! We’ve all been asked to help with an ad-hoc request for data by the sales and marketing team. Then it becomes a critical report that they need updated every week or every day. Then what do you do? Send a CSV via email? Write some Python scripts to automate it? But what about incremental sync, API quotas, error handling, and all of the other details that eat up your time? Today, there is a better way. With Census, just write SQL or plug in your dbt models and start syncing your cloud warehouse to SaaS applications like Salesforce, Marketo, Hubspot, and many more. Go to pythonpodcast.com/census today to get a free 14-day trial. Software is read more than it is written, so complex and poorly organized logic slows down everyone who has to work with it. Sourcery makes those problems a thing of the past, giving you automatic refactoring recommendations in your IDE or text editor while you write (I even have it working in Emacs). It isn’t just another linting tool that nags you about issues. It’s like pair programming with a senior engineer, finding and applying structural improvements to your functions so that you can write cleaner code faster. Best of all, listeners of Podcast.__init__ get 6 months of their Pro tier for free if you go to pythonpodcast.com/sourcery today and use the promo code INIT when you sign up. Your host as usual is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Antti Karjalainen about the RPA Framework for automating your daily tasks and his work at Robocorp to manage your robots in production Interview Introductions How did you get introduced to Python? Can you start by giving an overview of what Robotic Process Automation is? What are some of the ways that RPA might be used? What are the advantages over writing a custom library or script in Python to automate a given task? How does the functionality of RPA compare to automation services like Zapier, IFTTT, etc.? What are you building at Robocorp and what was your motivation for starting the business? Who is your target customer and how does that inform the products that you are building? Can you give an overview of the state of the ecosystem for RPA tools and products and how Robocorp and RPA framework fit within it? How does the RPA Framework relate to Robot Framework? What are some of the challenges that developers and end users often run into when trying to build, use, or implement an RPA system? How is the RPA framework itself implemented? How has the design of the project evolved since you first began working on it? Can you talk through an example workflow for building a robot? Once you have built a robot, what are some of the considerations for local execution or deploying it to a production environment? How can you chain together multiple robots? What is involved in extending the set of operations available in the framework? What are the available integration points for plugging a robot written with RPA Framework into another Python project? What are the dividing lines between RPA Framework and Robocorp? How are you handling the governance of the open source project? What are some of the most interesting, innovative, or unexpected ways that you have seen RPA Framework and the Robocorp platform used? What are the most interesting, unexpected, or challenging lessons that you have learned while building and growing RPA Framework and the Robocorp business? When is RPA and RPA Framework the wrong choice for automation? What do you have planned for the future of the framework and business? Keep In Touch aikarjal on GitHub @aikarjal on Twitter LinkedIn Picks Tobias WandaVision Antti Tenet Closing Announcements Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to check out our other show, the Data Engineering Podcast for the latest on modern data management. Visit the site to subscribe to the show, sign up for the mailing list, and read the show notes. If you’ve learned something or tried out a project from the show then tell us about it! Email hosts@podcastinit.com) with your story. To help other people find the show please leave a review on iTunes and tell your friends and co-workers Join the community in the new Zulip chat workspace at pythonpodcast.com/chat Links Robocorp RPA Framework RCC Robotic Process Automation Zapier IFTTT (If This Then That) Robot Framework Selenium Playwright Conda Micro Mamba PyOxidizer Podcast Episode XKCD "Is It Worth The Time?" XKCD Automation Curve The intro and outro music is from Requiem for a Fish The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

My Free Python Books list went viral on Hacker News, ending up on the home page within the first 2-3 entries for several hours.Free Python Books on the home page of Hacker News.Mike Andreuzza shared the project’s link to Hacker News on April 10, 2021. Since then the post gathered 154 upvotes. The Free Python Books GitHub repository jumped to almost 700 stars and 80 forks (up from about 95 stars and 20 forks before), reached almost 15K views from over 8K visitors, and went trending on GitHub.This attention brought new contributions to the project as 3 authors submitted their books and another user reported a broken link. Two people even sent me donations (thanks for the coffee!).A plot of the views (green) and unique visitors (blue) of the Free Python Books GitHub repository when the project was featured on Hacker News.Although I had interacted online with Mike a number of times, his submission to Hacker News came out of the blue and was a complete, pleasant surprise for me.Free Python Books is a project I began when first approaching the language. Books are my preferred learning resources, so I started maintaining a list of the many good free works I run across.Curation is another learning tool and the list is also a reference source for me.My deepest thanks to Mike and the many users who appreciate the project. If you haven’t already, check out Free Python Books.This post by Paolo Amoroso was published on Moonshots Beyond the Cloud.

Nas poucas e raríssimas lives que eu fiz na Twitch, surgiu a ideia de escrever sobre programação orientada a objetos em Python, principalmente por algumas diferenças de como ela foi implementada nessa linguagem. Aproveitando o tema, vou fazer uma série de postagens dando uma visão diferente sobre orientação a objetos. E nessa primeira postagem falarei sobre classes e objetos. Usando um dicionário Entretanto, antes de começar com orientação a objetos, gostaria de apresentar e discutir alguns exemplos sem utilizar esse paradigma de programação. Pensando em um sistema que precise manipular dados de pessoas, é possível utilizar os dicionários do Python para agrupar os dados de uma pessoa em uma única variável, como no exemplo a baixo: pessoa = { 'nome': 'João', 'sobrenome': 'da Silva', 'idade': 20, } Onde os dados poderiam ser acessados através da variável e do nome do dado desejado, como: print(pessoa['nome']) # Imprimindo João Assim, todos os dados de uma pessoa ficam agrupados em uma variável, o que facilita bastante a programação, visto que não é necessário criar uma variável para cada dado, e quando se manipula os dados de diferentes pessoas fica muito mais fácil identificar de qual pessoa aquele dado se refere, bastando utilizar variáveis diferentes. Função para criar o dicionário Apesar de prático, é necessário replicar essa estrutura de dicionário toda vez que se desejar utilizar os dados de uma nova pessoa. Para evitar a repetição de código, a criação desse dicionário pode ser feita dentro de uma função que pode ser colocada em um módulo pessoa (arquivo, nesse caso com o nome de pessoa.py): # Arquivo: pessoa.py def nova(nome, sobrenome, idade): return { 'nome': nome, 'sobrenome': sobrenome, 'idade': idade, } E para criar o dicionário que representa uma pessoa, basta importar esse módulo (arquivo) e chamar a função nova: import pessoa p1 = pessoa.nova('João', 'da Silva', 20) p2 = pessoa.nova('Maria', 'dos Santos', 18) Desta forma, garante-se que todos os dicionários representando pessoas terão os campos desejados e devidamente preenchidos. Função com o dicionário Também é possível criar algumas funções para executar operações com os dados desses dicionários, como pegar o nome completo da pessoa, trocar o seu sobrenome, ou fazer aniversário (o que aumentaria a idade da pessoa em um ano): # Arquivo: pessoa.py def nova(nome, sobrenome, idade): ... # Código abreviado def nome_completo(pessoa): return f"{pessoa['nome']} {pessoa['sobrenome']}" def trocar_sobrenome(pessoa, sobrenome): pessoa['sobrenome'] = sobrenome def fazer_aniversario(pessoa): pessoa['idade'] += 1 E sendo usado como: import pessoa p1 = pessoa.nova('João', 'da Silva', 20) pessoa.trocar_sobrenome(p1, 'dos Santos') print(pessoa.nome_completo(p1)) pessoa.fazer_aniversario(p1) print(p1['idade']) Nesse caso, pode-se observar que todas as funções aqui implementadas seguem o padrão de receber o dicionário que representa a pessoa como primeiro argumento, podendo ter outros argumentos ou não conforme a necessidade, acessando e alterando os valores desse dicionário. Versão com orientação a objetos Antes de entrar na versão orientada a objetos propriamente dita dos exemplos anteriores, vou fazer uma pequena alteração para facilitar o entendimento posterior. A função nova será separada em duas partes, a primeira que criará um dicionário, e chamará uma segunda função (init), que receberá esse dicionário como primeiro argumento (seguindo o padrão das demais funções) e criará sua estrutura com os devidos valores. # Arquivo: pessoa.py def init(pessoa, nome, sobrenome, idade): pessoa['nome'] = nome pessoa['sobrenome'] = sobrenome pessoa['idade'] = idade def nova(nome, sobrenome, idade): pessoa = {} init(pessoa, nome, sobrenome, idade) return pessoa ... # Demais funções do arquivo Porém isso não muda a forma de uso: import pessoa p1 = pessoa.nova('João', 'da Silva', 20) Função para criar uma pessoa A maioria das linguagens de programação que possuem o paradigma de programação orientado a objetos faz o uso de classes para definir a estrutura dos objetos. O Python também utiliza classes, que podem ser definidas com a palavra-chave class seguidas de um nome para ela. E dentro dessa estrutura, podem ser definidas funções para manipular os objetos daquela classe, que em algumas linguagens também são chamadas de métodos (funções declaradas dentro do escopo uma classe). Para converter o dicionário para uma classe, o primeiro passo é implementar uma função para criar a estrutura desejada. Essa função deve possui o nome __init__, e é bastante similar a função init do código anterior: class Pessoa: def __init__(self, nome, sobrenome, idade): self.nome = nome self.sobrenome = sobrenome self.idade = idade As diferenças são que agora o primeiro parâmetro se chama self, que é um padrão utilizado no Python, e em vez de usar colchetes e aspas para acessar os dados, aqui basta utilizar o ponto e o nome do dado desejado (que aqui também pode ser chamado de atributo, visto que é uma variável do objeto). A função nova implementada anteriormente não é necessária, a própria linguagem cria um objeto e passa ele como primeiro argumento para o __init__. E assim para se criar um objeto da classe Pessoa basta chamar a classe como se fosse uma função, ignorando o argumento self e informando os demais, como se estivesse chamando a função __init__ diretamente: p1 = Pessoa('João', 'da Silva', 20) Nesse caso, como a própria classe cria um contexto diferente para as funções (escopo ou namespace), não está mais sendo utilizado arquivos diferentes, porém ainda é possível fazê-lo, sendo necessário apenas fazer o import adequado. Mas para simplificação, tanto a declaração da classe, como a criação do objeto da classe Pessoa podem ser feitas no mesmo arquivo, assim como os demais exemplos dessa postagem. Outras funções As demais funções feitas anteriormente para o dicionário também podem ser feitas na classe Pessoa, seguindo as mesmas diferenças já apontadas anteriormente: class Pessoa: def __init__(self, nome, sobrenome, idade): self.nome = nome self.sobrenome = sobrenome self.idade = idade def nome_completo(self): return f'{self.nome} {self.sobrenome}' def trocar_sobrenome(self, sobrenome): self.sobrenome = sobrenome def fazer_aniversario(self): self.idade += 1 Para se chamar essas funções, basta acessá-las através do contexto da classe, passando o objeto criado anteriormente como primeiro argumento: p1 = Pessoa('João', 'dos Santos', 20) Pessoa.trocar_sobrenome(p1, 'dos Santos') print(Pessoa.nome_completo(p1)) Pessoa.fazer_aniversario(p1) print(p1.idade) Essa sintaxe é bastante semelhante a versão sem orientação a objetos implementada anteriormente. Porém quando se está utilizando objetos, é possível chamar essas funções com uma outra sintaxe, informando primeiro o objeto, seguido de ponto e o nome da função desejada, com a diferença de que não é mais necessário informar o objeto como primeiro argumento. Como a função foi chamada através de um objeto, o próprio Python se encarrega de passá-lo para o argumento self, sendo necessário informar apenas os demais argumentos: p1.trocar_sobrenome('dos Santos') print(p1.nome_completo()) p1.fazer_aniversario() print(p1.idade) Existem algumas diferenças entre as duas sintaxes, porém isso será tratado posteriormente. Por enquanto a segunda sintaxe pode ser vista como um açúcar sintático da primeira, ou seja, uma forma mais rápida e fácil de fazer a mesma coisa que a primeira, e por isso sendo a recomendada. Considerações Como visto nos exemplos, programação orientada a objetos é uma técnica para juntar variáveis em uma mesma estrutura e facilitar a escrita de funções que seguem um determinado padrão, recebendo a estrutura como argumento, porém a sintaxe mais utilizada no Python para chamar as funções de um objeto (métodos) posiciona a variável que guarda a estrutura antes do nome da função, em vez do primeiro argumento. No Python, o argumento da estrutura ou objeto (self) aparece explicitamente como primeiro argumento da função, enquanto em outras linguagens essa variável pode receber outro nome (como this) e não aparece explicitamente nos argumentos da função, embora essa variável tenha que ser criada dentro do contexto da função para permitir manipular o objeto. Esse artigo foi publicado originalmente no meu blog, passe por lá, ou siga-me no DEV para ver mais artigos que eu escrevi.

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Joomla 3.9.25 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 9 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 40 bug fixes and improvements.

Once again the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 7 release, and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 5.

Joomla 3.9.24 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 3 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Once again the Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 6 release, and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 4.

Open Source Matters Inc, the organisation behind Joomla!, and ScalaHosting are pleased to announce their strategic partnership.

Joomla 3.9.23 is now available. This is a security release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 7 security vulnerabilities and contains more than 35 bug fixes and improvements.

Joomla, one of the world’s most popular Content Management Systems (CMS), announced today the CVE Program authorizes the project as a CVE Numbering Authority.

Your YouTube Channel directly in your website TUBEFLIX for Joomla! is a module that displays the content (playlists & videos) of a Youtube channel to your visitors. TUBEFLIX for Joomla! was developed with the intention that your visitors do not have to leave your site to see your Youtube videos. Fully dynamic and "Mobile First-developed", TUBEFLIX is your professional solution to embed your Youtube channel on your Joomla! site. Incredibly fast TUBEFLIX automatically loads the latest videos from the corresponding channel, thanks to caching in the database the videos are available in a blink of an eye (okey maybe 2 or 3 while caching is active) - no matter if your channel contains 100 or 10'000 videos. The cache is automatically generated by your visitors. You define in the backend in which interval the content should be updated. If a visitor opens TUBEFLIX after the cache duration has expired, the cache is automatically updated for the next visitor. This saves time, resources and your API quota. Privacy First TUBEFLIX has an (optional) integrated disclaimer. Title & texts can be freely defined in the backend. Content is only loaded when the disclaimer has been accepted. Additionally, it is possible to link an article with further privacy information. Mobile friendly TUBEFLIX was developed for display on mobile devices. Thanks to the integration of great frameworks, TUBEFLIX is not only fast but also user-friendly - whether on mobile or on PC.

Joomla! has a long history of being the perfect CMS (Content Management System). It is powering millions of websites around the globe. ochSubscriptions extends Joomla with the possibility to convert your website into a subscription based and community enabled business website. Whether you focus on B2B or B2C, ochSubscriptions has got you covered! ochSubscriptions is a fork of the renowned (but abandoned) rd-subs extension that was and still is used to power the subscription business for a lot of (Joomla) extension developers. Time to convert your Joomla website into a Subscription based and Community enabled business website! ochSubscription is based on and fully integrated with Joomla, it gives you the following benefits: Joomla ACL: all subscription assigned access rights are handled by Core Joomla ACL (Access View levels), you set which Joomla user groups are assigned to the customer when subscribing and can set a (different) set of user groups that the user will be removed from when the subscription expires: maximum flexibility. Joomla Security: all access and authorisation is handled by Core Joomla EU VAT: Fully configurable to comply to your business / country EU VAT rules including validation of the VAT number of B2B Customers (integrated VIES check) (EU) VAT Rates: Support for standard and reduced vat rates (per EU country configurable) and even support for products that are exempt of VAT. Updating of the VAT rates can be done manually or automatic as part of an active subscription. Flexible Renewals: renewal discount can be set globally or per product giving you the perfect offering to entice your existing customer in keep doing business with you. (Expiry) discounts: flexible discounts can be configured globally or per product where you can set an (unlimited) amount of rules specifying expiry time and discount percentage. Your customers will be emailed a coupon code to get the discount resulting in sustainable subscriptions and business! Coupon Codes: create coupon codes with fixed amounts or as a percentage, on the complete order or for a specific product or user. All coupons can have an optional start and end date making it easy to run campaigns! File distribution: Comes out of the box with file / download functionality Extension distribution: fully integrated with Joomla One Click updater when using the ochSubscription provided download ID for the customer Multilingual Template system: create templates for the emails that are send via the system and invoices created. Use a sophisticated Content Construction logic to customize the these templates to hold all relevant information for your customers RD-Subscriptions import and RD-Subscriptions updater / download 'catcher': guaranteeing a smooth and hassle free transition for extension developers > old rd-subs updater URL keep working as they are replaced on the fly by ochSubscriptions! Joomla One Click Updater: distribute your Joomla extensions to your customers via their website's One Click updater! Watchful Integration: ochSubscription can provide your customer with a Watchful download key allowing them to update your extension via Watchful Customer pages: ochSubscriptions gives your customers direct insight into their active and inactive subscriptions, their invoices and their available downloads Billing information: Billing information needed for invoicing is integrated with the default Joomla User Edit view, just like Joomla Custom Fields are! Offline Payment: ochSubscription comes out-of -the-box with the PayLater payment plugin, this gives your customer the possibility to buy a subscription, get an invoice and once they paid the invoice you can process their order and activate their subscription. Online Payment provider: The new PayPal checkout buttons and Mollie (dutch payment provider) payment plugins are available as separate downloads (require additional subscription). and more to come....

Whatsapp Support module can be used as LIVE SUPPORT via WHATSAPP as it allows your website visitors to send messages directly to you or your agent's Whatsapp.

Randomizer is an awesome module that can help you load different other selected modules in a particular module position randomly upon reloading the page.

JoomSMS is the best SMS Joomla extension that let you send follow-up campaigns, auto-responders, newsletters, promotions, deals, automated messages... via SMS/Text messages. Main Features Send SMS/Text Messages Schedule SMS to be sent in the future Handle delivery reports to get statistics about your SMS Send Birthday SMS Send follow up SMS Include personal information in your SMS (user name for example) Filter your receivers to create targeted SMS campaigns Send automatic SMS (when an order is confirmed, when an order is created...) Manage SMS answers and execute automatic actions based on the received answer E-commerce integrations: send an SMS to your buyer when the status of his order changes Support +50 SMS providers And more ... Users Management Features Import/Export JoomSMS users Manage a black list of SMS numbers Sell credits to your users Manage your users from the Front-end Create user groups Messages Management Features Send SMS in mass Schedule your SMS to be sent in the future Follow-up/Birthday SMS Send an SMS when an order is confirmed or created Send SMS based on events Include user information in your message with our tag system Filtering system to deliver your SMS to a sub-part of your users Send MMS to your users (Gateway specific feature) Manage your conversation with a single user Answers Management Features Receive SMS answers Execute automatically an action based on the content of the received SMS Statistics Features How many messages were sent / how many failed Detailed error if the message has not been sent How many messages were received Handle delivery reports Sending Process Features Queue management system to not lose a single SMS Automatic send process Cron Job service Integrations with Joomla 3rd party extensions Social Networking: Community Builder, JomSocial E-commerce: HikaShop, RedShop, VirtueMart Jobs & Recruitment: Easy Jobs Manager Supported SMS Providers OVH Nexmo LOX24 OneWaySMS SmsBroadcast and more ...

JoomCompany is the most powerful office and invoicing Joomla extension for freelancers, small and medium-sized enterprises. Create invoices, bills, offers, manage master data of your clients, observe products trends, record working times, coordinate projects and much more. Main Features Invoices, Quotes and Documents Customer Management Warehouse Project Management Stock Markets and Portfolio Manager Messages & small CRM Accounting Reports Businesses Management Ability to manage multiple businesses (add, edit, delete) Set default business Set business details: name, address, logo and slogan Define pre-settings that will be proposed in the documents (currency, rate of taxes, tax and note) on business add/edit Define which categories should be shown in the menu bar for a faster access on business add/edit Define which documents folders represent revenue and which the expenditure on business add/edit Store additional information in data fields and make them visible in your template for PDF, Email, Print etc.. on business add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on business add/edit Locations Management Ability to manage multiple locations (add, edit, delete, batch processing ...) Set location details: name, category, currency, area (offices, warehouses, venues), status, document, description, street, postcode, location and country Store additional information in data fields on location add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on location add/edit Manage location categories Reports Features Documents report Contacts report Products report Filter by period and date range and more ... Documents (Quotes, Invoices and Reminders) Management Ability to manage multiple documents (add, edit, delete, batch processing ...) Predefined document categories (Invoices, quotes, reminders) Ability to search, sort and filter documents by date range, currencies, offices ... Set details like date, number, title, hint, status on document add/edit Set contact details like name, address, location, email and phone on document add/edit Attach an existing contact on document add/edit Manage products (quantity, unit, title, price, tax rate, discount) on document add/edit Set payment information like status, deadline, paid amount on document add/edit Ability to attach file to document Ability to set document template and email template Ability to preview / download pdf of document Store additional information in data fields on document add/edit Set product usage (selling/purchasing) on document add/edit Ability to generate recurring copies of document Set accounting details (debit/credits) on document add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on document add/edit Manage documents categories (documents folders) Contacts Management Ability to manage multiple contacts (add, edit, delete, batch processing ...) Predefined contacts categories (Customers, Employees, Suppliers) Ability to search, sort and filter contacts Display contacts on google map Ability to import Joomla users as contacts Manage contacts categories (contacts groups) Set contact details like title, first name, name, address, email, phone, contact id, status, since date Ability to attach file to contact Ability to set contact template Ability to attach Joomla user to contact and synchronize data between them Create document from contact add/edit for easy workflow Store additional information in data fields on contact add/edit Manage contact connections on contact add/edit Ability to view all documents related to contact on add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on contact add/edit Products Management Ability to manage multiple products (add, edit, delete, buy, sell, batch processing ...) Ability to search, sort and filter products Ability to view products stats (cost price, total bought quantity, total purchase, value of goods ...) Set product details like title, number, information, tax, unit, template, warehouse, min & max inventory, input (cost price, suppliers), output (sales price), category Ability to view all documents related to product on add/edit Ability to attach file to product Store additional information in data fields on product add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on product add/edit Manage products categories Events Management Ability to manage multiple events (add, edit, delete) Ability to view events timeline Set event details like title, category, status, start / end date, venue, description Ability to generate recurring copies of events Ability to attach file to event Ability to attach documents (quote, invoice, reminder..) to event Ability to manage event attendee Store additional information in data fields on event add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on event add/edit Projects and Tasks Management Ability to manage multiple projects & tasks (add, edit, delete) Ability to view projects and tasks timeline Set project details like title, category, status, start / end date, location, description Set task details like title, project, parent task, planned time, progress, status, start / end date, description Ability to generate recurring copies of projects/tasks Ability to attach file to project Ability to attach documents (quote, invoice, reminder..) to project Ability to manage project/task team Store additional information in data fields on project/task add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on project/task add/edit Occupancy Locations Management Ability to manage multiple occupancy locations (add, edit, delete) Ability to view occupancy locations timeline Set occupancy location details like title, venue, category, status, start / end date, location, description Ability to attach file to occupancy location Ability to manage occupancy location contacts Store additional information in data fields on occupancy add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on occupancy add/edit Talks Management Ability to manage multiple talks (add, edit, delete, batch processing) Set talk details like title, description, correspondence, template, priority Attach contact to talk on add/edit Ability to attach file to talk on add/edit Ability to preview talk messages Ability to share talk public link and switch to live chat Store additional information in data fields on talk add/edit Newsletters Management Ability to manage newsletters and newsletter lists (add, edit, delete, batch processing) Set newsletter list: title, note, parent category, status and contacts Set newsletter template: title, category, area, status, business, language, format, css, html code .... Store additional information in data fields on newsletter add/edit Manage the permission settings for the user groups on newsletter add/edit Accounting Management Ability to manage bookings, accounts, and accounts chart (add, edit, delete, batch processing) Set accounting record: title, debit & credits values. Ability to attach document (invoice, quote..) to accounting record Ability to attach file to accounting record Store additional information in data fields on accounting record add/edit Set account business year, budget, chart Store additional information in data fields on account add/edit Set account chart name, number, description, type and parent Markets Management Manage Watchlists Ability to view markets report (cost price, price, book value, volume...) More Features Templates management Data fields management Status management Units management Currencies management Translations management Uploads management Import & Export Theme style (red, blue, dark, light) Customize number format Send notification for users with limited rights Extra caching mode Ability to show/hide google maps in contact and locations Enable activity recording Enable / disable live chat mode and more ...

Listing your content smartly will be a great means of communication to inspire your audience. No matter if you’re a professional content administrator or not, JA Content Listing helps you easily maintain your content consistently. Simply build your content blocks by loading content from one or multiple categories. With many options for layout and filtering content your ways, this module is all you need to organize your articles. Core features: 9 layouts support 4 article styles support 16 Heading styles Display content from one or multiple categories Flexible settings to sort and filter content Featured (highlighted) item style settings Work in any templat, framework Display your content in flexible layouts fast and easy The Joomla extension makes the content listing for your Joomla site is easier than never. Check out the 2-minute video to see how easy to create a article listing module for your Joomla website. **Easy to set up and configuration: ** Multiple layouts support From list view to grid view, JA Content Listing module offers you up to 9 article listing layouts, giving you the diversity of choice set to display your content most effectively. Depending on what your audience’s reading behavior, you can easily choose the way you want. Multiple articles styles support This extension also offers you multiple styles for three different article types: video, gallery, and normal article that helps you appealingly tell your story. Attract your readers to the last words simply with a clean and beautiful layout for your content. 16 Heading styles A great heading will directly draw your audience’s attention. And we make it to 16 options for your best customization. Express your idea in just a second beautifully with our heading styles. Display content from one or multiple categories Not only function, the design of the filter page in frontend is sleek. Style is customized for all the supported extensions. Flexible settings, easy to sort and filter content It’s all about the best reading experience for your readers. Help them find their favorite articles with an effective sort & filter tool. JA Content Listing also supports you with a flexible option for setting your filter. Featured (highlighted) item With some basic settings, you can highlight any top articles from your blog to attract your readers. Provided with multiple layouts, your blog will have a stunning view in just a few minutes. Work in any template, framework Easy to set up and easy to use, our extension also works effectively in any template and framework. All makes Content Listing module the most powerful content listing module for your Joomla blog website. Responsive design The module displays articles beautifully in all supported responsive layouts: Desktop, tablet and mobile. Changelog: JoomlArt's Joomla Content Listing extension: v1.0.1 - 24 Mar 2021 - Joomla Fresh: All Layout setting working incorrectly - T3 Framework - Layout 03: items display error on tablet screen - Gavern Framework- Layout 06: Items display incorrectly - Vertex Framework - Layout All Layout 05, 06, 07, 08 display error on frontend - Gantry Framework: Layout 02, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08 display error on the frontend - Gavern Framework: Layout 02 display error on the frontend - Vertex Framework: Image display error on the frontend - Zengrid Framework - Layout 05, 06, 07, 08 is break display error on the frontend - Joomla Fresh: Items on frontend display incorrectly - Gavern Framework- Layout 01: Items display agglutinate - Vertex Framework - Layout 04: Columns setting working incorrectly - T3 Framework: Layout 04 display error on the frontend - T3 Framework - Layout 06: Missing items on Tablet screen - Vertex Framework: Header style 01, 03, 05, 07, 09, 11, 13, 15 not working on the frontend ###More info:

As announced on the php.internals mailing list, a pair of malicious commits were made in the PHP source code repository over the weekend. These commits were immediately noticed and reverted, and thus never reached end users. The investigation into the root cause and exact scope of the compromise is still ongoing, therefore releases will be put on hold for two weeks assuming no further issues are discovered. Thank you for bearing with us while we endeavor to ensure that PHP is a stable and reliable platform for web development.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the eleventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 5. This is an extra unplanned release, but we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however, this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 5 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 4. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the General Availability, planned for Nov 26 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the tenth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 3. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 3 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 4, planned for Nov 12 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the ninth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 2. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 3, planned for Oct 29 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the eighth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 1. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki page about the PHP 8.0. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 1 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 2, planned for Oct 15 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

The PHP team is pleased to announce the seventh testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Beta 4. This point in the release cycle would normally be RC1, however we're still finalizing development of the JIT and squaring away named arguments, so we've opted for an extra beta release with plans to start the RC cycle in two weeks. At this time, we're not planning to adjust the GA date, however this may change during the course of the RC cycle. The updated release schedule can, as always, be found on the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 4 please visit the download page.Please carefully test this version and report any issues found in the bug reporting system.Please DO NOT use this version in production, it is an early test version. For more information on the new features and other changes, you can read the NEWS file, or the UPGRADING file for a complete list of upgrading notes. These files can also be found in the release archive. The next release will be the Release Candidate 1, planned for Oct 1 2020.The signatures for the release can be found in the manifest or on the QA site.Thank you for helping us make PHP better.

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Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.348 0.006 0.031 0.033 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.421 0.007 0.017 0.017 3 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.285 0.081 0.161 0.161 4 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.006 0.212 0.094 0.188 0.188 5 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.011 0.519 0.055 0.110 0.110 6 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.124 0.076 0.151 0.151 7 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.205 0.094 0.188 0.188 8 Pair Networks Linux 0:00:00 0.017 0.336 0.110 0.219 0.219 9 Multacom Linux 0:00:00 0.017 0.381 0.124 0.250 0.250 10 www.flexential.com Linux 0:00:00 0.023 0.230 0.099 0.199 0.199 See full table In March 2021 GoDaddy had the most reliable hosting company site, with no failed requests and the fastest average connection time amongst the top 10 of 6ms. GoDaddy provides services that allow customers to build their own web presence, which include hosting solutions, domain registration, and a website builder focused on ease of use. In February, GoDaddy acquired Poynt to accelerate its strategy to provide a complete suite of commerce and payment services. The top three sites each had no failed requests and were separated by average connection time. Rackspace came in second place with an average connection time of 7ms, just 1ms slower than GoDaddy. Rackspace provides a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations in five continents. CWCS Managed Hosting wraps up the podium places, in third. CWCS supplies a wide range of hosting services from their ISO 27001, ISO 9001 accredited and Cyber Essentials certified UK data centres, powered by 100% renewable energy.

In the March 2021 survey we received responses from 1,187,527,949 sites across 263,355,616 unique domains and 10,847,682 web-facing computers. This reflects a loss of 16,724,462 sites, but a gain of 313,561 domains and 81,076 computers. nginx gained 3.7 million sites this month and holds 35.3% of the market with a total of 419.6 million sites. By contrast, Apache lost 8.5 million sites and accounts for just over a quarter of all sites with 308.5 million. Microsoft lost 9.6% (-7.5M) of its sites this month and ceded third place to OpenResty which in turn gained 1.2 million (+1.6%). OpenResty is a web platform based on nginx which integrates Lua-based modules and has been the third-largest server by domains for several months. Despite this, it trails the competition in terms of web-facing computers, with only 105,800 computers compared to Microsoft’s 1.4 million. nginx, Google, OpenResty, and LiteSpeed all acquired significant numbers of domains this month. nginx gained just over a million domains (+1.3%), while Google, OpenResty, and LiteSpeed gained 250,000 (+11.0%), 212,000 (+0.6%), and 68,600 (+1.3%). nginx’s domain growth came primarily from Freenom with 1.3 million domains using the server, while OpenResty’s growth came from its increased use on Google Cloud. Meanwhile, Apache and Microsoft lost -540,000 (-0.8%) and -585,000 (-3.7%) domains. nginx and Apache both gained web-facing computers this month with nginx gaining a substantial 74,000 additional computers and a gain of 0.4 percentage points of market share and Apache gaining 3,300 - though losing 0.2 percentage points of market share due to nginx’s comparative higher growth. Other vendors also saw market share losses, with Microsoft losing 24,200 computers (-0.3 pp) and OpenResty losing just over 200 computers (-0.01 pp) despite its gains in sites and domains. Looking at which web servers power the million busiest sites, only Cloudflare saw its count increase this month with a gain of 3,200 sites (+0.3 pp). Cloudflare’s growth came at the expense of nginx which lost the most with 1,570 fewer sites (-0.2 pp), along with Apache and Microsoft which both lost around 250 sites. The top spot remains hotly contested between Apache and nginx - Apache leads, but less than 2.5 percentage points separate the two. Other vendor and hosting news A major fire at OVH’s Strasbourg datacenters resulted in around 3.6 million websites across 464,000 domains being taken offline at the start of March. While this was not captured by this month’s Web Server Survey, additional investigation by Netcraft found that nearly 20% of the IP addresses attributed to OVH stopped responding during the incident. One of the four data centers at the site, SBG2, was completely destroyed, and OVH is now provisioning thousands of new servers to replace those lost. Windows Server 2022 is now in preview and will be made generally available later in 2021. The features added in this release focus on adding new layers of security, integrating more tightly with Microsoft’s Azure platform, and improving Windows Containers. The current major release, Windows Server 2019, was made generally available nearly two and a half years ago in October 2018. nginx version 1.19.8 and njs version 0.5.2 were released on the 9th March. Both updates add minor new features and bug fixes. OpenLiteSpeed, the open-source variant of LiteSpeed Enterprise, received several updates through February and March, with versions 1.5.12, 1.6.20, and 1.7.9 containing primarily security updates and bug fixes. Apache Tomcat was updated to versions 9.0.44 and 10.0.4. Both updates include a variety of fixes, including improvements to asynchronous error handling. DeveloperFebruary 2021PercentMarch 2021PercentChange nginx415,900,47934.54%419,637,92335.34%0.80 Apache316,992,63826.32%308,509,04225.98%-0.34 OpenResty76,623,4406.36%77,819,4906.55%0.19 Microsoft78,331,3796.50%70,826,3425.96%-0.54

Over 100,000 Outlook Web Access servers have been rebooted since Microsoft released security updates for the ProxyLogon remote code execution vulnerability. The subsequent flurry of reboot activity is likely indicative of many Microsoft Exchange servers being restarted after having security updates applied. Last reboot dates of Outlook Web Access servers as at 14 March 2021. Around half of all servers running Outlook Web Access (a service included with Microsoft Exchange Server) were rebooted in the five days after the emergency patch was released. Some of these have since been rebooted again, so will appear later in the above graph. Rebooted machines are likely to have been updated, but the absence of a reboot after 2 March does not necessarily indicate vulnerability. Anecdotally, most servers have requested a reboot after being updated, but some may only require services to be restarted – although administrators may have opted to reboot the servers anyway. Microsoft’s original fixes can only be applied to servers that already have the latest cumulative updates of Exchange Server already installed; however, amidst mass exploitation of the vulnerabilities, Microsoft also released a set of security updates that can be applied to older and unsupported Exchange servers that do not—or cannot—have the latest cumulative updates installed. The alternative security update path is intended as a temporary measure to protect vulnerable machines. Crucially, installing a later cumulative update that does not include the March 2021 security fixes will make the server vulnerable again, and any machine that uses the alternative security update path must be rebooted even if not prompted. In these cases, the servers will certainly not be protected until after the reboot. Some of the more recent reboots may have been prompted by Microsoft’s 9 March “Patch Tuesday” collection of software updates, which also includes fixes for the remote code execution vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange. On 6 March, four days after the original security updates were released, Netcraft found more than 99,000 Outlook Web Access servers were still running versions flagged as definitely vulnerable by Kevin Beaumont. However, applying Microsoft’s updates even in a timely fashion could have been like shutting the barn door after the horse had bolted, as more than 10% of all visited Outlook Web Access installations were already compromised with attackers’ web shells installed. These provide the criminal with continued administrative access to the compromised servers after the security updates had been applied.

Around 3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains were taken offline after the major fire at an OVHcloud datacenter site in Strasbourg overnight. More than 18% of the IP addresses attributed to OVH in Netcraft’s most recent Web Server Survey — which took place two weeks ago — were no longer responding at 06:00-07:15 UTC this morning. A load monitoring graph of a server that was running at one of OVH’s Strasbourg datacenters.It was last updated at 01:13 UTC today, indicating when it became inaccessible during the fire. Thankfully, everybody is safe; but OVH said the fire in its SBG2 datacenter was not controllable and no data is likely to be recoverable. Part of its SBG1 datacenter has also been destroyed. Firefighters were protecting SBG3 throughout the night, and although there was no direct fire impact on SBG4, it was also unavailable due to the whole site being isolated. Consequently, all services in SGB1-4 have been offline. Websites that went offline during the fire included online banks, webmail services, news sites, online shops selling PPE to protect against coronavirus, and several countries’ government websites. Examples of the latter included websites used by the Polish Financial Ombudsman; the Ivorian DGE; the French Plate-forme des achats de l’Etat; the Welsh Government’s Export Hub; and the UK Government’s Vehicle Certification Agency website, which got a new SSL certificate by 10am and is now back online with a UK hosting company. Banking websites have also been hit by the fire. Unsurprisingly for a French hosting company, the most affected country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is .fr, which had 184,000 knocked-out websites spread across 59,600 distinct domain names – these account for 1.9% of all .fr domains in the world. In comparison, there were only 24,100 .uk websites hosted in the affected datacenters, across just 8,700 unique domains. Most of the affected websites use the generic .com top-level domain, amounting to 880,000 websites across 180,000 domains.

This weekend, several days after Tuesday 2nd March when Microsoft released fixes for the ProxyLogon vulnerability, Netcraft found more than 99,000 unpatched Outlook Web Access servers accessible on the internet — of which several thousand have clear evidence of one or more web shells installed. Outlook Web Access (OWA) provides remote access to on-premises Microsoft Exchange mailboxes. While a treasure trove of corporate email is a tempting enough target itself, it can also act as a jumping-off point for deeper network access. Vulnerable versions allow unfettered remote access to the mail server. Originally attributed to the Hafnium group, the variety of different web shells and file naming conventions found by Netcraft suggest that the shells belong to multiple groups who have been spurred into action since Microsoft’s announcement by the scale of the opportunity. Vulnerable OWA installations as at 6 March 2021, based on passive observation of version numbers. Source: Netcraft survey. Netcraft has established that at least 10% of all visited OWA installations are now infested with web shell backdoors that do not use randomised filenames, and so could plausibly be guessed by anybody. These implants allow continued administrative access to the server, long after the underlying vulnerability has been patched. One of the backdoor scripts, disguised as an innocuous variable dump in a file named supp0rt.aspx. The active component of the backdoor is ‘hidden’ near the middle of the file. All of the backdoors hide in plain sight on the web server’s file system but are disguised as benign scripts or information dumps in order to avoid detection. There are several different variants of the backdoor script, but all have the same common feature in that they pass the hacker’s commands to the JScript Eval command, allowing arbitrary code to be executed directly on the web server. Most of the backdoor scripts accept the criminals’ arbitrary commands via a specially named GET or POST parameter, while others require the commands to be Base64 encoded first, and some only accept them via a POST parameter. Some variants of the backdoor script generate a runtime error if the secret variable name does not appear in the request. This makes it possible to detect their presence regardless. Netcraft has also seen several different variants of these backdoor scripts being uploaded to individual websites, likely in an attempt to preserve unauthorised access to the compromised web server. Unless all of the backdoor scripts are found and removed, the hackers will still be able to get in and create more. The web shell when viewed in a browser. There is no obvious indication of its malicious functionality. While some of the backdoor variants are wildly different in appearance, they all function in a similar way and require the user to know a secret variable name before any commands can be executed on the server. The variable name effectively acts as a password and provides the only security mechanism to ensure that the backdoor can only be used by the person or persons responsible for uploading it. However, some of the shells use easily guessable variable names like “o” and “orange”, which could plausibly allow them to be misused by other hackers if they can find the scripts and guess the correct variable names. This presents an even more dangerous situation where other fraudsters could then upload their own web shells to secure a foothold on the server. Such a situation could escalate quickly… new battlegrounds could erupt where rival fraudsters try to delete each others’ web shells and upload more of their own in a race to secure access and decide how best to monetize their exploits, all long after the initial OWA vulnerabilities have been resolved.

Rank Performance Graph OS Outagehh:mm:ss FailedReq% DNS Connect Firstbyte Total 1 www.choopa.com Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.242 0.005 0.027 0.027 2 Rackspace Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.433 0.011 0.024 0.024 3 Webair Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.299 0.069 0.139 0.139 4 Hyve Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.151 0.076 0.151 0.151 5 CWCS Managed Hosting Linux 0:00:00 0.000 0.320 0.083 0.167 0.167 6 GoDaddy.com Inc Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.371 0.008 0.038 0.040 7 New York Internet (NYI) FreeBSD 0:00:00 0.005 0.509 0.061 0.123 0.123 8 Bigstep Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.212 0.082 0.163 0.163 9 ServerStack Linux 0:00:00 0.005 0.223 0.082 0.164 0.164 10 Swishmail Linux 0:00:00 0.011 0.222 0.082 0.163 0.163 See full table Choopa.com took the top spot as the most reliable hosting company site in February. The top five hosting company sites all had no failed requests during the month, with the ranking decided by fastest average connection time. Choopa.com had the fastest connection time out of all of the top 10 hosting company websites, at just 5ms. In the past 12 months Choopa.com appeared in the top 10 nine times. Choopa.com offers a range of services including cloud hosting, dedicated hosting and colocation in its own primary facility in Piscataway, New Jersey as well as other facilities in Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Tokyo. Spots two and three in February go to Rackspace and Webair. Rackspace provide a wide variety of cloud services from its global network of over 50 locations in five continents, and Webair offer managed and private cloud services, storage and backup solutions from its eight facilities in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Singapore.

In the February 2021 survey we received responses from 1,204,252,411 sites across 263,042,054 unique domains and 10,766,606 web-facing computers. This reflects a gain of 6,270,052 sites, 92,829 domains, and 116,789 computers. nginx is top of the charts when it comes to total count of sites as well as number of unique domains and web-facing computers. 34.5% of all sites run on nginx, 30.4% of domains, and 35.0% of web-facing computers. Apache comes in at seconds place in these metrics, with a 26.3% market share of sites, a similar 26.4% share of domains, and 32.7% of web-facing computers. In terms of domains, OpenResty and Cloudflare come in at third and fourth place to make up an additional 14.4% and 7.1% of the market respectively. OpenResty is a web application server that is built upon the technology of nginx, but, strictly speaking, is not an nginx fork. Cloudflare historically based their server stack around nginx, but transitioned towards using more in-house developed technologies over time. As of this month, these web server vendors are tracked individually in the monthly Web Server Survey charts. Although nginx leads the wider market, Apache still has a small lead when it comes to the top one million busiest sites, with a 25.6% market share – 2.4pp ahead of nginx. Apache increased its share of the top million by 0.54pp in February. Although OpenResty takes a sizable chunk of the wider market, it is not nearly as common amongst the top million, taking only a 1.6% share. This disparity can be explained through GoDaddy’s extensive use of OpenResty for domain parking. Apache also holds a more significant lead in terms of Netcraft’s active sites metric, which favours sites with unique content. Apache serves 25.5% of active sites, whereas nginx serves 19.8%. Google accounts for a reasonably large 9.9% share of active sites, owing to its popular Blogger service. Microsoft’s server software market share remains in decline. Microsoft’s figures took a significant drop in 2020 in favour of OpenResty, and Microsoft now only has 6.5% (-1.0pp) of the site market and 6.0% (-0.3pp) of domains as of February 2021. OpenResty also looks set to overtake Microsoft as the third largest vendor in terms of sites and active sites. Other vendor and hosting news Nginx has pushed out its first product updates for 2021 – nginx version 1.19.7 and NGINX Unit 1.22.0. Lighttpd also released version 1.4.59 of its web server, which now enables HTTP version 2 by default. DeveloperJanuary 2021PercentFebruary 2021PercentChange nginx399,330,92733.33%415,900,47934.54%1.20 Apache316,046,14926.38%316,992,63826.32%-0.06 Microsoft89,781,1367.49%78,331,3796.50%-0.99 OpenResty74,385,4876.21%76,623,4406.36%0.15

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