ByBrian Krogsgard
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John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related security improvements going into WordPress 4.9, including a change of email confirmation process.
iThemes has hired Chris Wiegman and taken over his very popular plugin, Better WP Security. Better WP Security has over a million downloads on WordPress.org and sells commercial support and installation services on FooPlugins. Better WP Security also has excellent ratings. This is another smart move by iThemes in the utility / safety space, as…
The new iThemes security dashboard looks slick. It’s nice that everything is one page. I’m always pleased when screens and user experiences are tweaked as products (and their features) get more numerous and more complex. The new design looks like it takes a few cues (the good parts) from some of Jetpack’s iterations over the years,…
Robert Rowley explains the basics of lock picking in this live, hands-on workshop for Post Status members.
Once you know these states, you can assign probabilities of transitioning from one state to another (someone hacks your account and locks you out, you forgot your own password, etc.) and then build optimal security and reliability to deal with it. It’s a truly elegant way of conceptualizing the problem.
“Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates,” per the Internet Explorer support policy, as linked to from an announcement about IE11 support. So in the near future, it’s possible that the vast majority of Windows users will always…
WordPress 4.9.7 is a security release that fixes 17 bugs in WordPress, as announced by Aaron Campbell. The release caused some confusion from a naming perspective, as blog posts had been written scheduling 4.9.7, which are now bumped to 4.9.8 and on the schedule as outlined. As WordPress begins to formalize the minor release cycle…
