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A New WordPress Security Plugin: Don’t Believe The Hype – You Can’t Buy Security.

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This article gets technical. But I had to write to so I didn’t have to continually repeat the same points during internet discussions of a new WordPress Security Plugin. First, the background: The New WordPress Security Plugin Recently a slick marketing campaign has effectively promoted a new WordPress security plugin. A video promoting the plugin […]

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WordPress Security: Wordfence 6 launches

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When it comes to self-hosted instances of WordPress security policies must be enacted. WordPress security is taken care of for user of wordpress.com or managed WordPress hosts. However, when we are managing our own sites or client sites then we have to create our own security policies and deploy the right tools to implement those

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WordPress and PHP Security

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In my recent post on OWASP Day 2015 I remarked that WordPress.org itself takes security seriously. I mentioned the recently-released WordPress Security White Paper and pointed to the documents on hardening WordPress. Of course WordPress.org doesn’t exist in a vacuum and has a tight feedback loop with its wider community. This in itself may be one

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WordPress Security at OWASP Day NZ 2015

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OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) is a volunteer-run, non-corporate global organization devoted to making the web a safer place. It provides resources for developers and business to help them secure their assets. It’s many notable projects include the Owasp Top Ten: the canonical list of the top ten most likely types of threat to

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