Mark Maunder, Author at Wordfence

Wordfence 5.0.8 Released

This is a minor release but contains some important fixes and improvements.

Wordfence 5.0.7 Beta1 is now available

Hi Beta team! Wordfence 5.0.7 Beta1 is now available at: http://wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.7-beta1.zip As always to install this beta, disable and uninstall your current Wordfence plugin.

Please stop password protecting your /wp-admin folder because it breaks public AJAX for WordPress.

There are many helpful articles like this one that explain how to add “another level of security” to your website by password protecting access to the /wp-admin folder.

Research: The Top 100 WordPress Page Not Found Errors and What They Mean

Rationale Analyzing requests to non-existent pages across a broad range of websites can yield revealing insights into common website misconfigurations, vulnerability scans by malicious and non-malicious actors and other interesting behavior, for example, undocumented crawler behavior.

Wordfence 5.0.6 Released

Thanks to our beta team of around 400 testers now, we tested Wordfence 5.0.6 over the weekend and it has been released this morning into production.

Wordfence 5.0.6 Beta 1 Released

[UPDATE May 5th: Wordfence 5.0.6 Official has now been released. Thanks to our beta team for testing this release and their feedback.] This is for our Beta team.

Nginx.conf rules for Wordfence Falcon Engine Caching when using Nginx and PHP5-FPM

Below you will find a configuration file for nginx web server that contains the rewrite rules that you need to run Falcon with nginx.

Wordfence 5.0.5 Beta 1 is now available.

Hi Beta Team, The 5.0.5 beta for wordfence is available at: http://www.wordfence.com/betas/wordfence-5.0.5-beta1.zip This is a minor maintenance release.

Research: Finding the source of the current surge in brute force attacks on WordPress sites.

As you can see on our home page there is a large brute force attack underway that started around 10am Pacific Time yesterday (Thursday the 17th of April).

Wordfence 5.0.4 released! Now with (verified) HeartBleed detection.

A HUGE thank you to our team of beta testers. This is the first release we put through our improved release and beta process.

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