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WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys

ByDan Knauss
On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer’s site.

In case you were avoiding the…

ByBrian Krogsgard
In case you were avoiding the web on April Fool’s Day, here’s something that was announced that isn’t a joke: Cloudflare announced Warp, which is a VPN “for people who don’t know what V.P.N. stands for.” Warp automatically adds encryption from your device to the edge of Cloudflare’s network with the free “basic version.” You…

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

ByBrian Krogsgard
ManageWP announced some big updates to their site management services this morning. The highlights are as follows: A much faster base plugin that uses over 80% less memory than before Increased speeds and codebase for both backups and site cloning functionality Improved encryption standards for backup destination credentials A redesigned dashboard for their website I…

Licensing matters

ByBrian Krogsgard
There’s a popular WordPress vulnerability scanner called WPScan. To validate its popularity: it has over 1,800 commits, 750 stars, and 165 forks on Github. The scanner is used by a lot of security folks, as well as other service and product vendors. The plugin has historically been split license, sort-of, between GPL and some kind…