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

Wordfence is seeing a significant spike in SSH private key scanning activity. We are releasing this advisory to ensure that our customers and the broader WordPress community are aware of this new activity and of the risk of making private SSH keys public, and to explain how to avoid this problem....read more

This is a public service announcement (PSA) from the Wordfence team regarding a security issue that has a wide impact....read more

Today we are publishing episode 2 of our "Ask Wordfence" series. Today's question comes from Ilko in Bulgaria who would like to know how to secure an old outdated WordPress installation....read more

We have an exciting announcement today regarding the Gravityscan project. As you know the Wordfence team launched Gravityscan on May 16th of this year. Gravityscan is designed to provide malware and vulnerability scanning for any website....read more

Last week we emailed a small group of our customers asking them to contribute questions for a series of videos we will be running. We received questions from many of you, so thank you very much for participating!...read more

On Tuesday last week we published a post that described how someone had released an update to the Display Widgets plugin which contained a backdoor that allowed them to publish content to any site using the plugin. We also described how they exploited that backdoor to publish spam....read more

WordPress Core version 4.8.2 has just been released. This is a minor update and a security release which means that your sites will update automatically within the next 24 hours unless you have disabled auto updates....read more

This post is part of a series. This is the second post and a follow-up to our first story titled "Display Widgets Plugin Includes Malicious Code to Publish Spam on WP Sites". There is a third post in this series which explains how the same spammer influenced a total of 9 WordPress plugins over a 4.5 year period....read more

Note: This post is the first part of a series. The series has a second detailed follow-up which discusses the identity of the person behind the Display Widgets plugin spam. Then there is a third in the series which explains how the same spammer influenced a total of 9 plugins over 4.5 years....read more

When my co-founder, Kerry and I started scaling Wordfence as a business, our first hire was in customer service. We had both been taking shifts answering customer service tickets and forum posts along with doing engineering, QA, finance and everything else. We knew customer service was labor-intensive, but we also knew that the kind of business we wanted to create in Wordfence would need to have great customer service....read more