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Think Like a Hacker Episode 105

Episode 105: The Hottest Trend in WordPress

An analysis of WordPress-related search trends found that interest in WooCommerce related results dominated during 2020.
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Episode 104: Cryptography Demystified

This week, the Wordfence team discusses cryptography in depth, including the basics, a brief history, hashing, and the Crypto Wars.

Episode 103: Wordfence Innovates with Machine Learning and Security for Schools

Wordfence opens the K-12 site audit and site cleaning service for publicly funded state schools worldwide.
Think Like a Hacker episode 102

Episode 102: Disruption Presents Opportunity

After a disruptive year in 2020, there are new challenges in 2021, but also immense opportunities in numerous fields.
Think Like a Hacker Episode 101

Episode 101: Supporting Remote Students with Free Site Audits & Cleanings

Wordfence announces a new program offering free site cleaning and site audits to public schools in the United States.
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Episode 100: How to Lose 6 Figures the Easy Way

The recent SolarWinds attack was incredibly sophisticated. What happens when that level of sophistication targets a homebuyer during one of the largest transactions of their lifetime?
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Episode 99: SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Affects Government and Fortune 500 Businesses

Earlier this week, we learned that SolarWinds, the largest provider of network management tools for government and enterprise organizations fell victim to a supply chain attack.
Think Like a Hacker Episode 98

Episode 98: How Application Passwords Work in WordPress 5.6

WordPress 5.6 was released this week with a new feature called application passwords.
Think Like a Hacker Episode 97

Episode 97: The Future of WordPress with PHP 8 and WordPress 5.6

With WordPress 5.6’s imminent release and the recent release of PHP 8, we talk about the rapid changes affecting the future of WordPress with new security features and new functionality available to both WordPress users and developers.
Think Like a Hacker Episode 96

Episode 96: Hosting Provider Failures and Incident Response Preparedness

Two hosting providers experienced outages this week. GoDaddy had a brief outage affecting numerous systems on Tuesday, November 17.