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Vulnerability intelligence, breach data and risk ratings vendor Risk Based Security has warned about the rising number of vulnerabilities in third-party WordPress plugins, pointing out that 2240 such flaws had been reported in 2021.

Three top unnamed anti-virus companies located in the US appear to have been hacked by a collective that communicates in both Russian and English, and is offering to sell source code belonging to these firms, plus network access, for more than US$300,000.

Google has announced it's killing off the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) in Chrome, blocking the plugins from January 2014.

Apple has again updated its web plug-in blocking mechanism in order to prevent outdated and vulnerable versions of Java being used by web browsers.

Google's Meebo Bar publishing tool will be killed off on June 6, with the search giant saying it plans to focus on other projects like Google+.

Budding spies and sleuths have a new sneaky method of communicating, through a nifty Facebook plugin for Chrome.

Google has announced some significant changes to its Google Apps collaboration tools, including a new plug-in for Microsoft Office.