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Wordfence 7.10.0 Released!
Wordfence remains the number one security plugin of choice for website owners serious about protecting their investment and their customers.
Post Action Report: Bad Firewall Rule Released to WPEngine Customers Wednesday
On Wednesday afternoon a small percentage of WPEngine websites using a paid version of Wordfence experienced a 500 Internal Server Error or white screen on their sites due to an erroneous firewall rule that we released.
Wordfence Intelligence: Because Community Created Vulnerabilities Are Community Property
Last August, at Black Hat 2022 in Las Vegas, we launched Wordfence Intelligence, a product designed to provide large enterprise customers with rich IP threat data, malware signatures, malware hashes, and vulnerability data to help keep enterprise customers and networks secure.
Wordfence WooCommerce 2FA: Set Up This New Feature To Protect Your Customers
On February 15, we made the exciting announcement that the latest release of Wordfence, version 7.9.0, includes a new feature: WooCommerce 2FA (two-factor authentication) for customer level users.
The WordPress Ecosystem is Becoming More Secure with Responsible Disclosure Becoming More Common
The Wordfence 2022 State of WordPress Security Report was released on January 24th, 2023.
Wordfence Adds Two Factor Auth for WooCommerce Customers
Wordfence 7.9.0 has been released and it includes a very exciting feature for WooCommerce sites and other WordPress sites wanting to make two factor authentication (2fa) available to their site users or members.
PSA: Your Site Isn’t Hacked By This Bitcoin Scam, Keep the Money
On January 19th, 2023, a member of the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team received an email from their personal blog, claiming the site had been hacked, and we received two reports from Wordfence users who received the same message.
Holiday Attack Spikes Target Ancient Vulnerabilities and Hidden Webshells
Winter brings a number of holidays in a short period of time, and many organizations shut down or run a skeleton crew for a week or more at the end of the year and beginning of the new year.
Wordfence Launches Free Vulnerability Database For Commercial Use – And Launches Security Portal
Today we are incredibly excited to announce that Wordfence is launching an entirely free vulnerability database API and web interface, available for commercial use by hosting companies, security organizations, threat analysts, security researchers, and the WordPress user community.
Spikes in Attacks Serve as a Reminder to Update Plugins
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team continually monitors trends in the attack data we collect.
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