On Tuesday, January 21st, from Midnight – 8:00 AM ET, CU*Answers Network Services will be performing internal network maintenance. During this time, there may be brief network interruptions to our website and email hosting.
Thank you everyone for a great 2024! We at CU*Answers Web Services appreciate you using us for your website services.
The team at Automattic has planned the 2025 releases of WordPress. As reported at WPTavern, we are anticipating the next release of WordPress (version 6.8) on April 15, 2025. They are currently planning which features, updates, and bugfixes will be included this release. We’ll know more as we get closer.
Additional releases planned for the year include WordPress 6.9 enters beta testing in June with an anticipated release next August. And WordPress 7.0 is expected a year from now. Of course, there will be maintenance releases between all these major milestone releases.
CU*Answers Web Services carefully tracks WordPress releases and adjust our development environment as needed to anticipate any issues we might encounter. Our specialized hosting infrastructure is also designed to keep your WordPress bases websites secure and updated with the most recent releases. We incorporate the built-in rolling releases as well as regular scheduled updates for WordPress core and plugins every Sunday night.
Last week, CU*Answers Web Services sunset the CU*Secure website and redirected all traffic to the Federal Trade Commission’s Identity Theft website.
CU*Secure.org was launched in 2006 as a companion to the Online Banking Community login pages for It’s Me 247 Online Banking. The goal of the CU*Secure website was to support member education, one of the cooperative principles. So long and thanks for all the good content.
This week there was new of an unauthenticated user vulnerability in LiteSpeed Cache plugin. First and foremost, all of our websites are safe and sound. So, do not worry about that.
Unauthenticated vulnerabilities are bad. This one in particular had an issue that allowed any unauthenticated visitor to gain administrator level access. That’s really no good.
LiteSpeed Cache is a popular plugin for WordPress. It helps with the performance of your website. But its not CU*Answers Web Services’ preferred caching plugin. We use WP-SuperCache on nearly all of our websites (it’s one of our required plugins for your website.)
However, we did find a couple of websites that had LiteSpeed Cache installed but not activated. The good news is our automated infrastructure, which updates WordPress and plugins every Sunday night had already updated these plugins to secured versions a few weeks ago.
So, like I said. Everything is safe and sound. And rest assured, CU*Answers Web Services is committed to the security and performance of our websites.
Google has been talking about killing third-party cookies in Chrome for a few years. They were even on the verge of turning on their cookie replacement a year ago. Now, it seems all of that has been tossed aside and Google will reportedly be exploring new privacy tactics for users to self manage their options. Citing feedback from regulators, publishers, developers, and individuals in the advertising industry. Google says that, while the company still believes it can strike a balance between the online ad marketplace and user privacy, somehow. Yet, how that will work has been worked out yet.
Disabling tracking cookies is the default setting for Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari.
