This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 24, 2019 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
From Berlin we talk about our experience attending the largest WordCamp in the world and then dive into the news. We discuss 2,600 hacked WordPress sites being used for a free proxy service, Iranian cyber attacks, an attack at JPL affecting NASA and a WeTransfer security incident. We also cover a phishing breach at Oregon …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 21, 2019 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
Mark sat down with Frank Robinson at WordCamp Atlanta a few weeks ago. Frank started Studio Media 22 in 2008, an agency focused on building sites and digital media in the beauty industry. Frank is a software designer and entrepreneur growing his business. We talk about why he focused on the beauty industry and how …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 20, 2019 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
This week, we’re at WordCamp Europe in Berlin, Germany and there is a lot of WordPress and security news to cover. We talk about the recent outage with WordPress VIP Go, what’s new in WordPress version 5.2.2, vulnerabilities in two of Facebook’s WordPress plugins, a Google Chrome extension for reporting bad URLs and a Chrome …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on June 18, 2019 by Dan Moen 4 Replies
In February we launched Wordfence Central, an efficient way to manage the security of many WordPress sites in one place. If you have multiple sites and haven’t checked it out yet, you should. It includes a powerful dashboard, a single interface to view and manage security findings across all of your sites and robust new …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 13, 2019 by Kathy Zant 1 Reply
Ninja Forms is used on over 1 million WordPress sites. In this episode, Mark interviews James Laws, the co-founder of WP Ninjas, the developers behind this robust and powerful form builder. James and Mark talk about revenue models that work, how to find new opportunities through market research, experimentation with new products and services as …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 11, 2019 by Kathy Zant 4 Replies
This week, we discuss active exploitation of a plugin vulnerability in the wild, an extortion scam hitting numerous website owners, exposure of Industrial Control Systems to attackers as well as a CBP breach affecting travelers in the United States. We also talk about an email server vulnerability and what to do in a SIM port …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 07, 2019 by Kathy Zant 1 Reply
At WordCamp Orange County, Nathan Ingram participated in a unique business track discussion about failure, something with which most entrepreneurs are intimately familiar. Immediately after his talk, Nathan sat down with Mark for this interview. The conversation goes deep fast, as both Mark and Nathan share their thoughts about being an entrepreneur and how “the …
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This entry was posted in Podcasts on June 06, 2019 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
In episode 19 we talk to Brad Haas about recently patched service vulnerabilities that impacted four popular hosting companies. We also talk about a new login security plugin for WordPress that we’ve launched. In the news we cover a wave of SIM swapping attacks hitting cryptocurrency users, NGINX vulnerabilities and recent data breaches affecting the …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on June 04, 2019 by Mark Maunder 16 Replies
Today we are excited to announce the release of a brand new plugin: Wordfence Login Security. This plugin is a completely standalone plugin and you don’t need to install the full version of Wordfence to take advantage of the specific security features included in it. Wordfence Login Security is designed by our team to secure …
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This entry was posted in Vulnerabilities, WordPress Security on June 03, 2019 by Brad Haas 7 Replies
Last year, we published two disclosures of service vulnerabilities on hosting platforms. The first one included a trio of brands: Hostway, Momentous, and Paragon Group. The second was for MelbourneIT. In all cases, we were happy to report that the affected companies took our disclosures seriously and moved quickly to fix the problems. Today we’re …
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