Wordfence is the leader in WordPress security, protecting over 4 million WordPress sites from malicious attacks. With new malware variants discovered daily, we now have a new weapon in our arsenal against WordPress attacks: Machine Learning. How Wordfence identifies malware For years, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has stayed ahead of attackers by quickly identifying […]
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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/02/machine-learning-gives-wordfence-an-advantage/
Have you ever wanted to make a WordPress site private? So that only specific users are allowed access? For example, for my found-images site eChunks.com, I decided to require user login in order to access any content. So now for that site, public access is not allowed, and any posts, images, and all other content […]
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https://perishablepress.com/wordpress-site-private-access/
Last November, we wrote about how attackers are using JavaScript injections to load malicious code from legitimate CSS files. At first glance, these injections didn’t appear to contain anything except for some benign CSS rules. A more thorough analysis of the .CSS file revealed 56,964 seemingly empty lines containing combinations of invisible tab (0x09), space […]
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sucuri/blog/~3/EPjSXpEILoM/whitespace-steganography-conceals-web-shell-in-php-malware.html
WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it’s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 in two ways: Install/activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin […]
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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/02/wordpress-5-7-beta-1/
After several months of development, the official Nginx version of the 7G Firewall is out of beta and ready for public use. If you are not familiar with 7G Firewall, check out the documentation for the Apache/.htaccess version. The Nginx version of the 7G Firewall works the exact same way, so I won’t bother repeating […]
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https://perishablepress.com/7g-firewall-nginx/
Linux kernel vulnerability CVE-2020-14385 Security Advisory Security Advisory Description A flaw was found in the Linux kernel before 5.9-rc4. A failure of the file system metadata validator in ...
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https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K84900646?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
