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How to Secure Your WordPress Site from Hackers

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Securing your WordPress site from hackers is crucial to ensure your website remains safe and functional. One of the first steps in protecting your site is to choose a reliable WordPress development company in Mansarovar that specializes in secure website development and maintenance. They can help implement essential security measures such as installing SSL certificates, using strong passwords, and setting up firewalls. Regular updates to plugins, themes, and WordPress core are also important to avoid vulnerabilities.

ASUS UEFI force-installs and reinstalls shovelware on Windows and it’s spamming users with Christmas wishes

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I didn’t have the time to post this one before Christmas, but it’s so funny and sad at the same time I don’t want to keep this from you. It turns out that in the days leading up to Christmas this year, users of ASUS computers – or with ASUS motherboards, I guess – were greeted with a black bar covering about a third of their screen, decorated with a Christmas wreath. I am making this post for the sake of people like me who will have a black box show up at the bottom of their screen with a Christmas wreath labeled “christmas.exe” in task manager and think it’s Windows 10/11 malware. It is not. It is from the ASUS Armoury Crate program and can be safely closed and ignored. It looks super sketchy and will hopefully save you some time diagnosing the problem. ↫ Slow-Macaroon9630 on reddit So yes, if you’re using an ASUS computer and have their shovelware installed, you may have been greeted by a giant black banner caused by an executable called “christmas.exe”, which sounds exactly like something shitty malware would do. The banner would disappear after a while, and the executable would vanish from the list of running processes as well. It turns out there’s a similar seasonal greeting called “HappyNewYear.exe”, so if you haven’t done anything to address the first black bar, you might be getting a second one soon. The fact that shitty OEM shovelware does this kind of garbage on Windows is nothing new – class is not something you can accuse Windows of having – but I was surprised to find out just how deeply embedded this ASUS shovelware program called Armoury Crate really is. It doesn’t just come preinstalled on ASUS computers – no, this garbage program actually has roots in your motherboard’s firmware. If you merely uninstall Amoury Crate from Windows, it will automatically reinstall itself because your motherboard’s firmware tells it to. I’m not joking. To prevent Armory Crate from reinstalling itself, you have to reboot your PC into its UEFI, go to the Advanced Mode, go to Tool > ASUS Armoury Crate, and disable the option Download & Install ARMOURY CRATE app. I had no idea Windows hardware makers had sunk to this kind of low, but I’m also not surprised. If Microsoft shoves endless amounts of ads and shovelware on people’s computers, why can’t OEMs?

IRCTC down: नहीं चल रही IRCTC की Website & App! कैसे करें Ticket Book or Cancel? GoodReturns

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अगर आप आज ट्रेन ट‍िकट बुक कर रहे हैं और ऐसा नहीं कर पा रहे हैं तो परेशान मत होइये. क्‍योंक‍ि आपकी बुक‍िंग करने में गड़बड़ी नहीं है, बल्‍क‍ि आज भारतीय रेलवे की ऑनलाइन ट‍िकट बुक‍िंग प्‍लेटफॉर्म IRCTC ही डाउन हो गया है. भारतीय रेलवे खानपान और पर्यटन निगम (IRCTC) ने वेबसाइट डाउन होने की बात स्वीकार की है.

#IRCTC #IndianRailways #RailwayTickets #IRCTCApp #ticketbook #tatkalticket

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Web Wash: Drupal 11.1: Farewell Body Field and Hello New Hook System

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Significant changes arrive with Drupal 11.1, marking a shift in how developers work with content types and hooks.

No More Default Body Field

The default body field will no longer be automatically generated when you create a content type. This change moves away from the traditional standard where the body field serves as the primary content container. In the past, when starting a new Drupal site, the body field was always expected to be present. 

It was a standard feature that developers relied on. Now, new sites will have various field names such as `field_description`, `field_text`, and `field_content`. This shift in naming conventions may lead to some adjustments in how content is managed.

But I noticed that the body field was slowly being phased out and replaced with the paragraph field, where instead of adding all your content into a single field, you would build out your page using paragraph types, or as we would often call them, components.