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Keep Your Data Safe, Get A Glimpse Of Basic WordPress Security Issues

Are you aware of the fact that WordPress’s market share is nearly 35% of all the websites across the globe? In addition to this, about 75,000,000 sites are running on this software. Yes, it is a vast number, and now you can make an estimate about the responsibilities on WordPress, to keep every site safe. […]

New Malware Attack Targeting 60 Million WordPress Websites to add Backdoor & Exploit Plugins Vulnerability

Researchers discovered an ongoing malvertising campaign targeting millions of WordPress websites to infect with backdoor and exploiting the various WordPress plugins vulnerabilities. According to WordPress, there are nearly 60 million Websites power by WordPress content management system and hundreds of WordPress Plugins are installed that developers by various developers around the globe. Cybercriminals launch the […]

How to secure your website – InfoSec tips for newbie website owners

And Again About Hosting Security! Today, there are still many people who think that the Internet is as a comprehensive encyclopedia of the world. However, their number is decreasing. There are more and more people who rightfully consider the Internet as a means of earning money. It can attract a large number of new customers […]

Mailgun’s WordPress Website Hacked

Mailgun’s WordPress website has been hit by a spray-and-pray hacking campaign, as part of the massive attack on WordPress websites. Mailgun, email automation, and delivery service providers have been targeted by this attack, which is part of the coordinated attacks on WordPress websites exploiting a plugin-related vulnerability. ZDNet reports, “Email automation and delivery service Mailgun […]

WordPress Login Bug, Enables Third-Parties To Receive Security Tokens

The use of a Content Management System (CMS) to manage websites is heaven sent for non-programmers. The ease of use through a WYSIWYG editor it provides is like publishing a content similar to how to write articles in a word processor program. Problem with CMS is its complexity is hidden from the web content writer/publisher, […]

Flaw in GDPR-Themed WordPress Plugin Used to Hijack Websites

A security flaw in a GDPR-themed WordPress plugin has been used by hackers to hijack websites, as per reports. A blog post by Defiant, a company that focuses on WordPress security, discusses this issue pertaining to the popular plugin WP GDPR Compliance in detail. Tomáš Foltýn, security writer at ESET, had also discussed the issue […]

Easy, 10-Step Malware Removal Plan for WordPress Websites

WordPress websites are very common now. The WordPress CMS is immensely popular and it’s easy to use as well, even for beginners. However, WordPress security is an area that many users tend to take rather callously. Remember, you can’t just get a website done, go on updating it and sit back and take rest. You […]

How to Protect WordPress Websites from Keylogger Malware

WordPress is perhaps one of the most popular free, open source content management systems (CMS); it’s said that WordPress powers 30 percent of the internet. Now, let’s look at the other side of the picture; whatever is popular on the internet is likely to be targeted by cyber criminals as well. Well, they could only […]

How I Prevented HTTP 508 Error On My Site?

Short Bytes: This is a simple and real account of how I prevented 508 resource limit error on my personal blog. How it all began and how I ended up learning small yet very significant things otherwise I never had learned them. For the past few months, I had been seeing a lot of attacks on […]