Posts tagged with: Scam

Welcome to Hot Web Dev July 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. In this edition, we cover scammers targeting the online gambling market. Learning resources cover mobile development and TypeScript. The tool of the month is an open-source tool that will speed up web development.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev June 2025, featuring the latest technology, web development news and articles. In this edition, we look at the recent impact of 16 billion passwords being leaked and, more importantly, what you can do to protect yourself. The tool of the month is a new design system without a build step.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev February 2025, featuring the latest technology and web development news. In this month’s edition, we go back in time to revisit an old coding academy. We have our usual section on coding featuring Laravel and Svelte. The tool of the month is another web platform framework.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev June 2023, featuring the latest web development. This month features the latest version of Svelte. We look at scams/AI scams and how the young are falling for them. An update on Platform X, the OnClick situation. The web tool of the month will help you create beautiful documentation to go with your wonderful app.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev May 2023, featuring the latest web development. This month features a very special birthday. PyPi is to implement an important security feature by the end of the year. The web tool of the month is a fun CSS editor that is pointless and possibly painful to use.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev April 2023, featuring the latest web development and security news. This month features the latest version of Ubuntu. The latest MacOS malware can gain access to your sensitive data, including your passwords. OnClick Pro is now being rebranded platform X. New name but defaults to the original scam. The web tool of the month hooks into all the popular web frameworks.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev March 2023, featuring the latest news on web development and security. This month features the latest release of WordPress, which features over 900 enhancements. A recent hacking contest uncovered 27 exploits. Is the software you use one of them? The web tool of the month is perfect for developers who don’t have design skills.

Have you been a victim of Platform X, OnClick Pro, formally Academy? Before Christmas 2022, I published a post about a promising company using poor tactics to scam people out of money. In my conclusion, I believed that this company would start its shady tricks once more, and it has happened. This post will contain any updates on the situation. In the meantime, if you have any concerns please get in touch. Please don’t become another victim!

Welcome to Hot Web Dev February 2023, featuring the latest news on web development technologies. This month features a threat that targets a popular package manager. Long live web design. Is web design dead in the twenty-twenties? The web tool of the...

Welcome to Hot Web Dev January 2023, featuring the latest web development technologies. This month we will talk about Artificial Intelligence and whether it will take over the world. We also discover some shady Android apps. The web tool of the month is a User Interface fit for any Vue.

Welcome to Hot Web Dev December 2022, featuring the latest web development technologies. This month follows on from November’s edition which features a grifter out to grab your cash. Are you a victim? This month also features a major security update and the web tool of the month is a copy/paste resource to add usable blocks to your websites. Wishing all my readers a Happy New Year and all the best for 2023. See you in January.

Ever purchased a lifetime deal for it to disappear from existence within months of buying it? With so many deals out there it’s hard to spot a good one. This article highlights the rise and fall of OnClick Academy. Although the intentions may have not been to deliver the service but to extract as much money out of their customers. We will never know!