WordPress 5.6.1 is now available! This maintenance release features 20 bug fixes as well as 7 issues fixed for the block editor. These bugs affect WordPress version 5.6, so you’ll want to upgrade. You can download WordPress 5.6.1 directly, or visit the Dashboard → Updates screen and click Update Now. If your sites support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process. WordPress […]
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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/02/wordpress-5-6-1-maintenance-release/
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
After a disruptive year in 2020, there are new challenges in 2021, but also immense opportunities in numerous fields. In a deep and wide-ranging conversation, Mark Maunder and Kathy Zant discuss artificial intelligence, whether or not we’re living in simulation, cryptocurrencies and the opportunities of blockchain technology, open source communities and publishing, avoiding scams and […]
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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/01/episode-102-disruption-presents-opportunity/
When you visit a website, your browser (also known as a client) sends a HTTP request to a web server. Once the web server sends an HTTP response, the browser can then render the page to your screen. However, HTTP traffic has a problem; it is a plaintext protocol. This makes it susceptible to snooping […]
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https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/ssl-tls-https-guide-wordpress-administrators/
When you visit a website, your browser (also known as a client) sends a HTTP request to a web server. Once the web server sends an HTTP response, the browser can then render the page to your screen. However, HTTP traffic has a problem; it is a plaintext protocol. This makes it susceptible to snooping […]
More info:
https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/ssl-tls-https-guide-wordpress-administrators/
