ByDan Knauss
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Wordfence has published its 2020 WordPress Threat Report. 😨
Last year Wordfence blocked “90 billion malicious login attempts from over 57 million unique IP addresses” and “4.3 billion attempts to exploit vulnerabilities from over 9.7 million unique IP addresses.” 🛡️
Nice post here on Reddit from Mark Maunder the founder and CEO of Wordfence as he replies to the question of how people come up with their startup ideas: “So my site was hacked. I used to be a hacker in the early to mid-90s and so it really pissed me off. I also worked…
Cory and David talk about WordPress’s reputation relative to its performance and a new proposal for a Performance Team for WordPress core.
Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.
If you use the Demo Importer or a commercial theme from ThemeGrill, you should be aware of a security issue that can potentially let attackers wipe out your sites! There is an update available to address this exploit. 😲 Last month, the team at Wordfence revealed a similar issue in the WP Database Reset plugin.
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how new developers might be able to get a footing with a career in WordPress. (The first step might be more social than technical in nature.)
Wordfence has launched Fast or Slow, which was born from the idea “to develop a way to measure real-world performance from around the world, and an easy way to read and interpret the results.” 💨 This free online service provides you with an overall score of your site’s performance along with a summary and breakdown…
