Security

Pop-art Google Ads dashboard with a giant passkey symbol overlay, calendar dates July 15 and July 8 highlighted, and a comic speech bubble reading 'Sensitive Action Blocked'.

Google's 7-Day Passkey Delay Quietly Moves the July 15 Deadline to July 8

Google Ads will require a passkey to confirm sensitive actions starting July 15, 2026, including account linking changes, user access edits, billing updates, and unusual bulk operations. New passkeys carry a seven-day security delay before they can authorize those actions, which means an agency that waits until July 14 to

Google Is Closing the Ads API Hijack Loophole With Mandatory MFA on April 21

Google is making multi-factor authentication mandatory for new Google Ads API OAuth 2.0 refresh tokens starting April 21, 2026. Existing tokens keep working, but the second credentials need re-auth, the TWO_STEP_VERIFICATION_NOT_ENROLLED error stops the job cold. Agencies running Google Ads Scripts, Editor, BigQuery Data Transfer,

Blueprint-style diagram of WordPress plugin code blocks with hidden backdoor keys and broken security shields

30 WordPress Plugins Got Backdoored Because Nobody Audits Plugin Sales

If you run a marketing site on WordPress (and roughly 43% of all websites do), every plugin you have installed carries implicit trust. Trust that the developer is who they say they are, trust that updates contain what the changelog says they contain, and trust that if the plugin gets