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Getting the Most From Wordfence Premium

If your WordPress site matters, upgrading to Wordfence Premium gives you the best protection available.

Introducing High Demand Pricing for Security Services

In Summer 2016,  we began offering a site cleaning service for people with hacked websites.

PSA: Lessons From The Atlanta Ransomware Situation

In the past few days the City of Atlanta has been hit with a ransomware attack.

New Feature Protects Against Password Leak Attacks

To better protect our users’ websites, we work with a lot of data from sources like our Security Services Team and the Wordfence network.

Wordfence 7 Update

It has now been a few weeks since we launched Wordfence 7.

Introducing Wordfence 7

Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security software in the world for good reason.

Wordfence Now Includes 1.4 Billion Leaked Passwords in Password Auditing Feature

Last week, we reported a massive upsurge in brute force login attempts following the leak of a database of 1.4 billion clear text credentials.

New Service Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

The Wordfence team regularly discovers security issues with commercial services, such as WordPress hosting providers, that put their users at risk.

Wordfence Is Now Defiant

Today we are announcing that our company name is changing to Defiant Inc.

Postman SMTP Plugin With Unpatched Vulnerability Removed From Directory

We have received a number of questions regarding the Postman SMTP plugin which was removed from the WordPress.org directory this week.