Category Archive: Wordfence
This entry was posted in Wordfence on August 21, 2019 by Matt Barry 15 Replies
Today we are launching a version of Wordfence containing a new feature for sites on hosting providers with read-only file systems such as WP Engine or for environments where multiple web servers are behind a load balancer. This new feature uses a MySQL storage engine for firewall attack data to protect WordPress sites in complex …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence on June 18, 2019 by Dan Moen 4 Replies
In February we launched Wordfence Central, an efficient way to manage the security of many WordPress sites in one place. If you have multiple sites and haven’t checked it out yet, you should. It includes a powerful dashboard, a single interface to view and manage security findings across all of your sites and robust new …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on June 04, 2019 by Mark Maunder 16 Replies
Today we are excited to announce the release of a brand new plugin: Wordfence Login Security. This plugin is a completely standalone plugin and you don’t need to install the full version of Wordfence to take advantage of the specific security features included in it. Wordfence Login Security is designed by our team to secure …
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This entry was posted in Wordfence, WordPress Security on May 14, 2019 by Dan Moen 23 Replies
Spend any time looking at blocked attacks in Wordfence Live Traffic and you’ll walk away worried about login security. WordPress sites are under constant attack by bots attempting to guess your users’ passwords. A lot of these attacks simply test lists of commonly used passwords along with usernames they think you may have chosen, like …
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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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