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Wordfence Research and News
WordPress Security: Remote Scanning vs Source Code Scanning
After chatting to old and new friends at WordCamp San Francisco over the weekend about WordPress security I realized there’s some confusion about what the real value is of scanning your website source code vs remote scanning for infections on your website.
A Malicious Del.icio.us?
Google blacklisted bit.ly several days ago in a move that caught many publishers off guard.
Shell Shock: Major Bash vulnerability disclosed. May affect a large number of websites and web apps.
A major vulnerability in the Bash shell has been disclosed today.
Major Infrastructure Upgrade Completed and Other News
Last night, Monday the 1st of September we completed a major infrastructure upgrade to the cloud services that provide the back-end for Wordfence.
Important security fix in Wordfence 5.1.4
A week ago we released a fix for a security issue in Wordfence 5.1.2 and older.
How to lower your Wordfence renewal price – and how our renewal pricing works.
We recently rolled out some changes to our licensing system that our customers asked for and that give you a way to save even more on Wordfence licensing.
Zero Day Vulnerability in WP CopySafe Web and WP CopySafe PDF WordPress Plugins
Update: The issue has been confirmed, the plugins have been temporarily removed from the repository until the author fixes the issue.
Why your site is being Spamvertized – and what to do about it.
You’re running a popular and honest WordPress website and all of a sudden an abuse ticket arrives in your email from your hosting provider.
Wordfence Beta Release: 5.0.9 Beta 1 is available for testing.
If you’re one of our Beta testers, we’ve just released Wordfence 5.0.9 Beta which which you can find here: http://wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.9-beta1.zip If you’d like to try out this Beta release (which is not production ready until we say it is), disable your current Wordfence, uninstall it, then upload this ZIP using the WordPress plugin upload mechanism ...
The Black War
The US Justice Department today indicted five Chinese Military officers for hacking.
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