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Information security
fromTNW | Apps
1 week ago

30+ WordPress plugins bought on Flippa and backdoored in supply chain attack

A significant WordPress plugin compromise involved a backdoor planted in over 30 plugins, exposing a critical vulnerability in plugin ownership transfer and update mechanisms.
fromSearch Engine Roundtable
2 months ago

Google & Bing Call Markdown Files Messy & Causes More Crawl Load

What happens when the AI companies (inevitably) encounter spam and attempts at SEO/GEO manipulation in the markdown files targeted to bots? What happens when the .md files no longer provide an equivalent experience to what users are seeing? What happens if they continue crawling those pages but actually toss them out before using the content to form a response? ...And we keep conflating "bot crawling activity" with "the bots are using/liking my markdown content?" How will we know if they're actually using the .md files or not?
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