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 … Read More
Occasionally at Wordfence we publish posts that are public service announcements that help the broader online community including your team, friends and relatives.
Update: We’ve added comments at the end of the post pointing out that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) considers an email address to be personally identifiable information or PII.
In this post I’m going to discuss a major problem that exists with several WordPress malware scanners: The use of weak hashing algorithms for good and bad file identification.
During our research into what the WordPress community knows about hacked websites, we discovered that there is very little data available on the subject.
Breaking WordPress Security Research in your inbox as it happens.
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