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Major Central Release: Alerts, Security Events and Slack Integration

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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Announcing 3 New Login Security Features

Spend any time looking at blocked attacks in Wordfence Live Traffic and you’ll walk away worried about login security.

Podcast Episode 11: The Dave Ryan Interview

Today we’ve published episode 11 of Think Like a Hacker. As we mentioned earlier in the week, we’ve switched to a new format beginning this week, separating the news and our interview into two episodes.

Yuzo Related Posts Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

The Yuzo Related Posts plugin, which is installed on over 60,000 websites, was removed from the WordPress.org plugin directory on March 30, 2019 after an unpatched vulnerability was publicly, and irresponsibly, disclosed by a security researcher that same day.

Introducing Wordfence Central

Over the last several months, we have been focused on making Wordfence a better option for organizations with a large number of WordPress sites to protect.

Analyzing a Week of Blocked Attacks

If you’ve never taken a few minutes to look at the information available in the Wordfence Live Traffic feature, I strongly recommend it.

WordPress 5.0.1 Security Release – Immediate Update Recommended

WordPress 5.0.1 was released Wednesday night, less than a week after the much anticipated release of WordPress 5.0.

Video: WordCamp Atlanta Security Panel with Wordfence

In April, Wordfence sponsored WordCamp Atlanta and several of our team members attended the event.

Meet the Defiant Team

In August, most of our team attended DefCon, a hacker conference in Las Vegas attended by tens of thousands of security professionals.

Wordfence: Live On Tour In A City Near You

This year we’ve attended and sponsored quite a few WordCamps, and have had members of our team speak at some as well.