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You will learn the factors to consider when deciding whether to enable automatic updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, this talk will demystify how hackers exploit websites that have out-of-date versions of WordPress, plugins, themes, and PHP (the scripting language used to run WordPress). 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