Category Archive: Wordfence
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 Wordfence on February 06, 2019 by Dan Moen 19 Replies
Over the last several months, we have been focused on making Wordfence a better option for organizations with a large number of WordPress sites to protect. To start, we added the ability to secure your staging and development environments with a single Wordfence premium license, something you should take advantage of if you haven’t already. …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on January 22, 2019 by Dan Moen 13 Replies
If you’ve never taken a few minutes to look at the information available in the Wordfence Live Traffic feature, I strongly recommend it. It gives you a detailed look at what attackers are trying to do to break into your site, and how Wordfence is blocking them. For today’s post we analyzed all of the …
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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 Research, Wordfence, WordPress Security on December 05, 2018 by Mikey Veenstra 17 Replies
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, which attempt XML-RPC authentication to other WordPress sites in order to access privileged accounts. Between Wordfence’s brute force protection and the premium real-time …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on October 18, 2018 by Dan Moen 6 Replies
In April, Wordfence sponsored WordCamp Atlanta and several of our team members attended the event. While there, we held a capture the flag (CTF) contest, which helps WordPress site owners learn to think like a hacker so that they can better defend their websites. Part of hacker culture is the art of lock picking, which …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on October 16, 2018 by Kathy Zant 0 Replies
Throughout 2018, we have had many conversations with agencies and other organizations protecting a large number of WordPress sites with Wordfence. You’ve told us what you need to be more successful, and we’ve responded with many changes to both our licensing and our capabilities. To start, we added the ability to secure your staging and …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on September 25, 2018 by Dan Moen 13 Replies
In August, most of our team attended DefCon, a hacker conference in Las Vegas attended by tens of thousands of security professionals. All of us work remotely, so it is always really special to spend time together as a team. While we were there we completed a fun project. We created a video with footage …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on August 22, 2018 by Dan Moen 6 Replies
This year we have been very focused on the needs of agencies and other organizations with lots of sites to protect. We’ve spoken with many of you and have a clear picture of what we can do to make Wordfence work even better for you. To start things off, in June we released a feature …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on July 19, 2018 by Mikey Veenstra 4 Replies
As you’re probably aware, Wordfence’s Security Services Team (SST) provides world-class remediation services in the event that your site falls victim to malicious activity. Our analysts combine their considerable expertise with the best threat intelligence in the industry to deliver results we’re consistently proud to stand behind. To be clear, the word “consistently” is used …
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