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Wordfence Launches Short-Circuit Scan Signatures – Up to 6X Performance Increase

In October 2016, the Wordfence team started chatting about a way to radically boost the speed of scans once we grow beyond a certain number of scan signatures. As a reminder, a scan signature is a pattern that recognizes a certain kind of malware. Today Wordfence has 4,523 signatures available for the free community, and we …
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Wordfence Scan Gets Faster and Smarter

Wordfence is highly effective at securing your website in part because it is tightly integrated with the WordPress API.

Wordfence Integrates Malware Scan Into Firewall

If you’ve been using the Wordfence Firewall for a while, you may have noticed that our firewall ruleset has been growing steadily over the past few months.

Malware: 139,000 WordPress Sites Saved in 30 Days

Wordfence provides two core security capabilities to the websites we protect.