Author Archive: Mark Maunder
This entry was posted in Ask Wordfence, Learning, Wordfence on February 06, 2019 by Mark Maunder 5 Replies
Today we are very excited to announce the launch of Wordfence Central. Our team has been working hard for almost a year on this ground-breaking project. Wordfence Central gives you the power of a security events and information manager for WordPress. Join me for a live event starting at 8am Pacific time, 11am EST where …
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This entry was posted in Miscellaneous on December 13, 2018 by Mark Maunder 6 Replies
WordCamp US was held in Nashville, Tennessee this year. We sponsored the event, had a booth and of course provided lock picking lessons, as has become our tradition at WordCamps. Our goal is to get you to think like a hacker, so that you can better secure your sites. Picking a lock really gets you …
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This entry was posted in General Security, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 10, 2018 by Mark Maunder 3 Replies
This weekend I had a really fun conversation with Doc Pop from Torque Magazine. Torque is a great news source for WordPress news. They are part of WP Engine, but maintain editorial independence. I chatted with Doc in Nashville, in the Music City Center where WordCamp US was being held. Music City Center is an …
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This entry was posted in Miscellaneous on December 05, 2018 by Mark Maunder 50 Replies
WordPress 5.0 is being released tomorrow, December 6th. This release contains a major change to the WordPress editor. The new editor, code-named Gutenberg, is a substantial leap forward in functionality. It uses a new block-based system for editing which allows you to embed a wide range of content in your posts and pages, and gives …
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This entry was posted in General Security, WordPress Security on October 30, 2018 by Mark Maunder 0 Replies
WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many other popular website CMSs were written in a programming language called PHP. PHP version 5 is about to reach end-of-life and will stop receiving security updates in two months. Many WordPress and other PHP websites remain on version 5.6 or older. Once support for PHP 5 ends in two months, …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on May 22, 2018 by Mark Maunder 65 Replies
Today the team at Defiant completed the required steps to make our organization and services GDPR compliant. Your starting point for Wordfence and GDPR should be the following page: Wordfence and GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation page. On the above page you can find everything you need to ensure that you remain GDPR compliant while …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on May 16, 2018 by Mark Maunder 21 Replies
Update: Wordfence is now GDPR compliant. Click here to learn more. Preparations to get Wordfence and our organization ready for GDPR continue at Defiant and we are on schedule. Last week we sent out an update that said we are applying for the Privacy Shield certification program for both EU-US and Swiss-US and will soon have …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on May 15, 2018 by Mark Maunder 3 Replies
Last month we introduced ‘high demand’ pricing for our site cleaning service. We did this because demand for site cleanings is seasonal and it became a challenge for us to deal with the surges in business we would see while maintaining a high level of customer service. We have always run our site cleaning business …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on May 09, 2018 by Mark Maunder 33 Replies
Update: Wordfence is now GDPR compliant. Click here to learn more. We want to send out an update on the new data protection law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), going into effect soon and how Defiant is getting ready for it. This new European law goes into effect on May 25, 2018. It is …
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This entry was posted in Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on May 08, 2018 by Mark Maunder 16 Replies
This is a post written by James Yokobosky who works on the Defiant Threat Intelligence team. In his daily job he analyzes new WordPress threats as they emerge and adds detection capability to the Wordfence malware scanner. In addition to making sure we detect new malware, James also researches the pieces of malware we find …
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