Scary Data – Trends in Malware, Phishing, Site Cleaning and Bad Networks By Dan Moen for WordFence. Original here. At Wordfence we have great visibility into the size and scale of the threat facing the WordPress community. Our software protects well over a million sites worldwide. This week we thought it would be interesting to…
WordPress-Delivered Ransomware and Hacked Linux Distributions By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. In a rather unfortunate turn of events earlier this month, the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center was infected with ransomware. Ransomware, if you’re unfamiliar with it, encrypts everything on your workstation and then tells you to pay an attacker to decrypt your system and…
Why Wordfence Supports Strong Encryption Without Backdoors By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. This morning global headlines are discussing Apple’s move to oppose a court order issued by the US government regarding breaking into it’s own iPhone. This case has far reaching consequences and is part of a wider debate on cryptography and whether…
6 Million Password Attacks in 16 Hours and How to Block Them By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. Last week in the President’s cyber security op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he implored Americans to move beyond simple passwords and to enable two factor authentication or cellphone sign-in. One of the things we monitor at…
3 Severe Plugin Vulnerabilities Fixed in the Last 24 Hours By Mark Maunder for WordFence. Original here. The following three plugins contain severe vulnerabilities that have all been fixed within the past 24 hours. Details of these vulnerabilities have been released to the public so they are likely already being exploited. If you use any of these…