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Getting the Most From Wordfence Premium

April 18, 2018

If your WordPress site matters, upgrading to Wordfence Premium gives you the best protection available. And at $99 per year, it is incredibly affordable. Once you’ve made this great investment, there are a few things you can do to optimize your site’s security. Install Your Premium License Key Do you have the free version of …
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Privacy Policy and Notice at Collection

December 21, 2017

Privacy Policy and Notice at Collection Effective: January 30, 2024 Defiant, Inc. (“Defiant,” “the Company.” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to privacy and data protection. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information Defiant collects from you, through our interactions with you, through www.defiant.com , www.wordfence.com, websites under the control of Defiant (collectively “Sites”), and the…

Wordfence Premium

September 22, 2017

Wordfence Premium comes with real-time firewall protection, real-time scan signatures, an IP address blocklist, country blocking, and Premium support.

Wordfence Scan Gets Faster and Smarter

July 19, 2017

Wordfence is highly effective at securing your website in part because it is tightly integrated with the WordPress API. We know your visitor identity information, so we can make smart decisions about who gets access and who gets blocked. It’s very different from the way generic firewalls work. This allows us to create powerful firewall …
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7 Popular WordPress Security Myths

May 31, 2017

Because of its incredible popularity as a platform, WordPress enjoys a sizable, generous community of users that spend their time sharing information, resources, tips and insights with other WordPress users online. Understandably, online security is at the forefront of concerns for many site owners, and a lot of the online conversation about WordPress centers around …
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51 Tools for Security Analysts

April 20, 2017

Yesterday at Wordfence we had an “all welcome” technology sharing meeting with the entire company – or at least everyone that was available at the time. The meeting became so popular with our team that we had to upgrade the license we use for our real-time collaboration service to accommodate everyone. It is the largest team meeting …
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Wordfence Launches Real-Time IP Blacklist for Premium Customers

March 14, 2017

Today we are very excited to announce that we have launched a real-time IP blacklist for Wordfence Premium customers. This is something we have wanted to do for a long time because the benefits to our site owners are enormous. The new blacklist will completely block thousands of malicious IPs from making any attempt to access …
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WordPress Used as Command and Control Server in 2016 Election Hack

February 13, 2017

On Friday evening the Department of Homeland Security released a report [PDF link] containing updated and broader analysis of Russian civilian and military intelligence organization’s attempts to interfere with the 2016 US election. This Wordfence report is an analysis of the new ‘Enhanced Grizzly Steppe Report’ and the data it includes. We show that one of the websites used in …
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Election Hack Report FAQ: What You Need to Know

January 2, 2017

On Friday we published an analysis of the FBI and DHS Grizzly Steppe report. The report was widely seen as proof that Russian intelligence operatives hacked the US 2016 election. We showed that the PHP malware in the report is old, freely available from a Ukrainian hacker group and is an administrative tool for hackers. …
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Malware: 139,000 WordPress Sites Saved in 30 Days

August 31, 2016

Wordfence provides two core security capabilities to the websites we protect. Our firewall prevents your WordPress site from getting hacked. Our malware scanner detects if you have been hacked or if malware has somehow been installed on your system. Today I’d like to share a few malware statistics, how we put new malware detection into production and a …
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