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Wordfence is a popular WordPress security plugin. Among the features are scanner that monitors for hacked files and a firewall with regularly updated rules that proactively blocks malicious bots.

WordPress users warned as millions of attacks reported. Updated October 29 with a correction to the WordPress attack statistics: the correct number is 1.6 million attacks in 48 hours. WordPress ...

Effectively managing your own passwords under any circumstances is hard work but managing your users’ passwords on a WordPress installation can become the job from hell. Say you’re the admin of a ...

A new WordPress cyberattack campaign puts 1.6 million websites at risk. This was confirmed by the company's security department, Wordfence. LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 4: People in the audience are ...

Popular web hosting site WordPress has come under attack from hackers exploiting a flaw that allows them to create rogue admin accounts. Researchers at security firm Wordfence discovered that known ...

The popularity of WordPress has made it a prime target for site attacks. The more people using the same platform of any type, the more success hackers will have exploiting a larger number of users.

Hackers are exploiting an old vulnerability in a commercial WordPress plugin to break into websites and plant backdoors. Ongoing attacks have been first spotted at the end of last month by incident ...

WordPress plugins continue to be under attack by hackers using stolen credentials (from other data breaches) to gain direct access to plugin code. What makes these attacks of particular concern is ...