5 Places Where You’d Never Expect to Get Hacked
For every gleaming new IoT device that hits the market, a hacker somewhere is figuring out how to compromise it. Today, even routine activities can land you in the sights of a bad actor. Imagine what a bad day could look like in these days of ubiquitous...
Trump Campaign Site Hacked – What We Know & Lessons Learned
On October 27, 2020 at approximately 4:50pm Mountain Time, Donald Trump’s campaign website, www.donaldjtrump.com, was defaced. The attackers left a message claiming they had compromising information on President Trump. The defacement page contained two Monero...Take the 2020 WordPress Annual Survey (and view the 2019 results)!
For many years, WordPress enthusiasts have filled out an annual survey to share their experiences and feelings about WordPress. Interesting results from this survey have been shared in the annual State of the Word address and/or here on WordPress News. This...WordPress 5.6 Beta 2
WordPress 5.6 beta 2 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so we recommend that you run this version on a test site. You can test the WordPress 5.6 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “bleeding edge...
Introducing Wordfence Central Teams
Last year, we introduced Wordfence Central and today thousands of WordPress site owners are using this free tool to manage their WordPress sites. Whether you’re using Wordfence Premium or still on the free plugin, Wordfence Central makes it possible for you to...
P.A.S. Fork v. 1.0 — A Web Shell Revival
A PHP shell containing multiple functions can easily consist of thousands of lines of code, so it’s no surprise that attackers often reuse the code from some of the most popular PHP web shells, like WSO or b374k. After all, if these popular (and readily available) PHP...
Opera and Brave Blocking Legit Images and Files
The Opera and Brave browsers are blocking many legitimate images. Thanks to the Opera settings “Block Ads” and “Block Trackers”, lots of legitimate (non-ad) images are broken. For Brave it’s the setting, “Block cross-site...
WordPress debug: how to enable it & debugging options
Sometimes we are unable to reproduce a problem that a user is encountering when using the WP Activity Log plugin. In such cases we would require more information from the user’s WordPress website, which can be found in a log file. These log files can be generated by...