ByDan Knauss
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Wordfence published a comprehensive whitepaper analyzing WP-VCD, which is the name for an intensifying malware campaign that is spread via “nulled” or pirated plugins and themes. ☠️
Wordfence is getting into the “forensic” and malware cleaning business for WordPress sites. The service is a pretty logical extension of the plugin, and they’re charging $179 to clean sites, or $120 for Wordfence Pro customers.
Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.
Sucuri does another of its great in-depth reports on how hackers can add malware and other bad things to your website. This time they show how hackers can tweak WordPress to hide spammy posts from real visitors while leaving them visible to search engines.
WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that’s being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.
DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here are my video picks for the week: WordCamp Europe 2021: The video feeds from all three days of WCEUE are available on YouTube, with individual videos to be published in the coming weeks on WordPress.tv. Wordfence Live: Scott Miller explains how Wordfence recently became a CVE Numbering Authority. The…
Cloudflare has introduced 1.1.1.1 for Families, an easy way to “to add a layer of protection to your home network and protect it from malware and adult content.”
