Mark Maunder, Author at Wordfence

Podcast Episode 4: The Aaron Campbell Interview and the Social Warfare Saga

This week we have an update on the Social Warfare plugin vulnerability, how it was more serious than originally thought, and a feud that has broken out between a security researcher and forum moderators.

Podcast Episode 3: The Cory Miller Interview and Active Exploits Target Easy WP SMTP Plugin

Welcome to Think Like a Hacker, Episode 3. In this episode Mikey Veenstra, a threat analyst at Wordfence, discusses an active exploit in the Easy WP SMTP plugin.

Podcast Episode 2: Mikey Veenstra Talks XSS Vulnerability + The Adam Warner Interview

Welcome to Think Like a Hacker, Episode 2. In this episode Mikey Veenstra, a threat analyst at Wordfence, discusses a serious XSS vulnerability in an abandoned cart plugin.

Think Like a Hacker Podcast Episode 1: An Interview with Josepha Haden

Josepha Haden is the Executive Director of the WordPress project at Automattic.

Live Event: Wordfence Central Official Launch and Demo

Today we are very excited to announce the launch of Wordfence Central.

WordCamp US Recap

WordCamp US was held in Nashville, Tennessee this year. We sponsored the event, had a booth and of course provided lock picking lessons, as has become our tradition at WordCamps.

How We Think About WordPress Security and Research

This weekend I had a really fun conversation with Doc Pop from Torque Magazine.

WordPress 5.0: How and When to Update

WordPress 5.0 is being released tomorrow, December 6th. This release contains a major change to the WordPress editor.

Using PHP 5 Becomes Dangerous in 2 Months

WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many other popular website CMSs were written in a programming language called PHP.

Wordfence Is GDPR Compliant

Last Updated December 1, 2021 As of September 27, 2021, the revised EU Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the EU Commission on June 4, 2021 (in effect as of June 27, 2021) apply to all Defiant, Inc.

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