Author Archive: Mark Maunder
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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This entry was posted in Miscellaneous on May 03, 2018 by Mark Maunder 12 Replies
The Wordfence team recently sponsored and attended WordCamp Atlanta. Instead of doing the usual boring corporate thing with our booth, we decided to host a capture the flag, or CTF contest. A CTF is essentially a hacking contest. It is a series of puzzles that the contestant needs to solve. They might include decrypting an …
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This entry was posted in WordPress Security on May 02, 2018 by Mark Maunder 11 Replies
We’ve received quite a few questions about this in the past 24 hours, either via forums, email or twitter. Roughly 14 hours ago we started seeing reports that WordPress site owners running Jetpack were receiving emails that stated the following: You recently requested to have the administration email address on your site changed. If this …
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This entry was posted in General Security, WordPress Security on April 03, 2018 by Mark Maunder 31 Replies
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. …
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