Updates on CyberSecurity, WordPress and what we're cooking in the lab today.

If your WordPress site matters, upgrading to Wordfence Premium gives you the best protection available. And at $99 per year, it is incredibly affordable. Once you've made this great investment, there are a few things you can do to optimize your site's security....read more

In Summer 2016,  we began offering a site cleaning service for people with hacked websites. In Spring 2017, we added a second service: site security audits. The popularity of both services has grown tremendously since then. We now service hundreds of sites every month....read more

I recently got a call from a friend I haven't seen for a while asking me if I'd like to grab a coffee. He had a few questions about whether WordPress is secure. I'm always looking for an excuse to visit the hip Georgetown neighborhood just south of Seattle, so I jumped at the chance. Plus Chris is an all-round awesome guy who works for a well-known social media startup, so I wanted an update!...read more

In February, we wrote about a vulnerability on three shared hosting services.  Following our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, we had alerted them about vulnerable permissions on shared drives on their servers. They fixed the problem, making things safer both for their customers and for their customers' site visitors....read more

Yesterday the Drupal security team announced a highly critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Drupal core. The vulnerability allows an attacker to leverage multiple attack vectors and take complete control of a website. The Drupal team estimates that, at the time of the announcement, over one million sites are affected - about 9% of Drupal sites. They also reported that, to their knowledge, it was not being actively exploited....read more

In the past few days the City of Atlanta has been hit with a ransomware attack. Several major computer systems that provide city services have been encrypted by an attacker. The attacker is demanding $51,000 worth of bitcoin to decrypt the systems, and the city has not yet ruled out paying the ransom. The attack occurred five days ago, and as of this writing, the systems remain inaccessible....read more

This question came in from Keith, a Premium Wordfence customer. We've dealt with this question a few times in different ways on the blog, but pulling it all together sounds like a great post. Let’s dive in!...read more

This is a public service announcement and a reminder to site owners. Google's Chrome browser has already started the process of ending support for Symantec SSL/TLS certificates. This includes companies owned by Symantec including Thawte, Verisign, Equifax, GeoTrust and RapidSSL....read more

At Wordfence, one of our goals is to empower you as much as possible to be self-sufficient, at no additional cost. To do that, we provide Wordfence as a free security plugin. Over the years we have also developed a comprehensive WordPress Security Learning Center that provides readers with a complete understanding of WordPress Security and how to run a secure website. We have also published a number of articles explaining how to recover from a hack, should that worst-case scenario ever arise....read more

To better protect our users' websites, we work with a lot of data from sources like our Security Services Team and the Wordfence network. We try to understand not just what attackers are doing, but also how and why. Our research into a recent campaign revealed an interesting method of attack, and contributed to the development of a new feature....read more