How to Generate WordPress Salts & Security Keys: Step by Step Instructions
Kaushal Bhavsar In the realm of WordPress security, there’s a powerful tag team working tirelessly behind the scenes to safeguard your website’s login process. Meet salts and…
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How to Update, Install & Remove WordPress Plugins & Themes With WP-CLI
Rianna MacLeod WordPress, like other open-source content management systems, allows you to enhance your website’s appearance and functionality through custom code and third-party components like plugins and…
How to Secure Your Online Store: A Ecommerce Security Primer
Victor Santoyo Welcome to another installment in helping website owners secure their digital assets, this time with a focus on the world of ecommerce. If you’re an…
What Is a Keylogger?
Welcome to the world of keyloggers, where every keystroke you make may be watched, recorded, and potentially used against you! Now that we’ve got your…
Vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor Leads to Mass Infection
Ben Martin On May 11th, 2023, the very popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor released a patch for a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, initially discovered by…
WordPress 6.2.1 Security & Maintenance Release
Cesar Anjos On May 16, 2023, the WordPress core team released a crucial update — WordPress 6.2.1. This latest security and maintenance release addresses a number of…
Websites Defaced with Belarusian Bottled Water Company Content
It’s not often that we get the opportunity to write about website defacements on this blog. Defacements — where a website homepage is replaced with…
Xjquery Wave of WordPress SocGholish Injections
Denis Sinegubko In November, 2022, my colleague Ben Martin described how hackers were using zipped files and encrypted WordPress options stored in the database to inject SocGholish…
What is XML-RPC? Security Risks & How to Disable
XML-RPC is a protocol designed for WordPress to standardize communication between different systems, allowing external applications (such as other blogging platforms and desktop clients) to…
What is Steganography? (Or, How Hackers Hide Malware On Websites)
As a child, I loved sending secret messages to my friends using invisible ink. A quick squeeze of lemon juice was all I needed to…
WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup April 2023
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes…