Persistent XSS Vulnerability in WordPress Explained
Marc-Alexandre Montpas Last week the WordPress team released a patch that fixed 6 security vulnerabilities. Of the six, you’ll find one that we identified a few months…
Ask Sucuri: How Did My WordPress Website Get Hacked? – A Tutorial
Daniel Cid With the proliferation of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service providers, it is no surprise that a majority of today’s websites are hosting in the…
WP-CLI Guide: Install WordPress via SSH
Alycia Mitchell This is our fourth post on using WP-CLI to manage WordPress securely over SSH. In our first post we showed you how to connect to…
BIND9 – Denial of Service Exploit in the Wild
BIND is one of the most popular DNS servers in the world. It comes bundled with almost every cPanel, VPS and dedicated server installation and…
Prestige Conference Means Business
Michael Dickens II A great career in business could be likened to a well penned novel. It will be wrought with twists, sharp turns and will feature dull…
WP-CLI Guide: Secure Plugin & Theme Management
Welcome to our third post on WP-CLI for secure WordPress management over an SSH command line interface. In our previous two articles, we discussed how…
SweetCAPTCHA Returns Hijacking Another Plugin
Denis Sinegubko Yesterday we observed a strange short return of the SweetCaptcha plugin to WordPress.org repository. In June we reported that SweetCaptcha injected third-party ad code to…
Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam
Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your comment…
WP-CLI Guide: Secure WordPress Backup and Update
Welcome to our second post in the series on WP-CLI for WordPress management over SSH. In our previous post, we discussed how to get your…
Webutation Distributing Malware Through Safety Badge
Krasimir Konov If you are using the Webutation badge on your site, remove it now. It appears they got hacked and are distributing malware to mobile devices…
WP-CLI Guide: Connect to WordPress via SSH Intro
Do you use the WordPress dashboard to update plugins and themes? How do you back up your database? If you have not used it yet,…