Mark Maunder, Author at Wordfence

Check if Your Home Router is Vulnerable

At Wordfence, we make a firewall and malware scanner that protects over 2 million WordPress websites.

Thousands of Hacked Home Routers are Attacking WordPress Sites

Update: By popular request, we have created a tool that lets you check if your own home router is vulnerable to the problems discussed in this post.

The March 2017 WordPress Attack Report

Today we are releasing the WordPress Attack Report for March, 2017.

‘Secure’ in Chrome Browser Does Not Mean ‘Safe’

Google’s Chrome web browser is used by over 50% of users on the web.

5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company

In the past month, our forensic analysts ran into two situations where we saw a significant number of site cleaning customers, all from the same hosting companies, all with the same malware.

Support End-to-End Encryption on the Web

The Wordfence Team would like to encourage website owners and Internet users to support end-to-end encryption on the Web.

1.4 Million Attacks in 24 Hours: 32% Blocked by the New Blacklist

Last Friday we quietly launched a new Premium feature in Wordfence: A real-time IP blacklist that completely blocks known malicious IPs from accessing your website.

Wordfence Launches Real-Time IP Blacklist for Premium Customers

Today we are very excited to announce that we have launched a real-time IP blacklist for Wordfence Premium customers.

WordPress 4.7.3 Security Release – Upgrade ASAP

WordPress 4.7.3 has just been released. It is the third in a series of recent security releases for WordPress core.

Clef Two Factor Authentication is Shutting Down

This morning, two-factor authentication plugin Clef, also known as GetClef, announced that they are shutting down.

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