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7 Best Amazon Affiliate Plugins for Your WordPress Site (2023)
The Amazon Associate Programme can be an amazing way to monetise your content and earn some extra commission. But, the process of incorporating affiliate links to your site, effectively, can be painstaking. You not only have to add affiliate links to your blogs to appropriate keywords but monitor the Amazon listings for changes in pricing […]
Read MoreWordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup January 2023
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. To help educate website owners on emerging threats to their environments, we’ve compiled a list of important security updates and vulnerability patches for the WordPress ecosystem this […]
Read More6 Best WordPress SEO Plugins for 2023
Gone are the days when we’d flip through an encyclopedia to look up something. Search engines have made it faster, simpler, and more portable (mobile phones for the win), to find information. You can find anything online. Want to find a blog that discusses candle-making? Within seconds, you’ll have a list of the top 10 […]
Read More13 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Your Site
WordPress makes it super easy to build your own website from scratch at very little cost. This makes WordPress a very affordable option for bloggers and small businesses. Plugins can help you add functionality to your WordPress site and can be both free or premium. But it’s important to consider if the free plugin is […]
Read MoreHow to Fix the “Deceptive Site Ahead” Warning
Did you just try to access your site and encounter a Deceptive Site Ahead warning? This error message occurs when the browser believes your website is unsafe and experiencing security issues — and it can seriously affect your traffic and reputation. When this warning appears on your site, you’ll want to address it as soon […]
Read MoreMassive Campaign Uses Hacked WordPress Sites as Platform for Black Hat Ad Network
Every so often attackers register a new domain to host their malware. In many cases, these new domains are associated with specific malware campaigns, often related to redirecting legitimate website traffic to third party sites of their choosing — including tech support scams, adult dating, phishing, or drive-by-downloads. Since late December, our team has been […]
Read MoreThe Wordfence 2022 State of WordPress Security Report
Today, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team is releasing our 2022 State of WordPress Security Report as a free White Paper. In our report, we look at changes in the threat landscape, analyze impactful trends, and provide recommendations based on our findings. While most of our recommendations remain consistent with prior years, there were some surprising […]
Read MorePSA: Your Site Isn’t Hacked By This Bitcoin Scam, Keep the Money
On January 19th, 2023, a member of the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team received an email from their personal blog, claiming the site had been hacked, and we received two reports from Wordfence users who received the same message. The email claimed that the site had been hacked due to a vulnerability on the site. The […]
Read MoreVulnerable WordPress Sites Compromised with Different Database Infections
Vulnerabilities within WordPress can lead to compromise, and oftentimes known vulnerabilities are utilized to infect WordPress sites with more than one infection. It is common for out of date websites to be attacked by multiple threat actors or targeted by the same attacker using multiple different channels. We recently came across a database injection that […]
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