Mark Maunder, Author at Wordfence

Wordfence Issues with Rackspace and a few other hosts now resolved

This has been a thorn in my side for some time now and I’m glad to report it’s 100% resolved.

The other reason you want to enforce strong passwords for your users

In a conversation I was having recently with a cryptography enthusiast I was reminded of a very important reason you may want to enforce strong/complex passwords on your website.

Cellphone SMS delivery issues resolved

We had a handful of reports from customers who have enabled cellphone sign-in that their SMS’s weren’t getting delivered at all.

Got a persistent scraper? Here’s how to deal with them, permanently!

I received an email from one of my favorite Wordfence users who runs a popular blog and creates really great original content.

Delivery Reports now available for Cellphone Sign-in

For most of our customers, Cellphone Sign-in, otherwise known as Two Factor Authentication, works flawlessly.

Hacking cars to do scary stuff

Here’s a fun little hack from Charlie Miller, a security engineer at Twitter and Chris Valasek from IOActive.

Wordfence Bug Bounty: Get a $146 Wordfence Premium 5 year license per bug.

Update: Please note that this program has ended. Thank you to all who participated.

DefCon update #1

Amazon day at DefCon in Vegas with around 30,000 hackers and geeks at the Rio.

Getting temporarily off the grid for DefCon…

DefCon, the largest hacker conference in the world officially started today, but the main conference kicks off tomorrow morning with a few great sessions.

Want to see a live BotNET in action? [Video]

This was one of the coolest moments of BlackHat 2013 for me.

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