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Jetpack vs Wordfence: Which is Better?
Jetpack is a multipurpose administrative plugin, and packages backups, security, growth and speed in one handy-dandy plugin. Plus, it has the cachet of being from the Automattic stable, so it obviously carries weight in the WordPress domain. Our other contender is Wordfence, arguably the most popular WordPress security plugin today. They are known for their […]
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Most Interesting Vulnerabilities of 2021
As with most years, there’s been a wide array of critical vulnerabilities found within content management systems, plugins, API keys, etc. We’ll be recapping our discoveries and how these vulnerabilities were exploited, or potentially could have been. Adobe Patches Critical Magento Vulnerabilities This past year, Adobe released several critical security patches for both their commercial […]
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How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS
Making sure your website uses HTTPS should be a top priority for any webmaster In fact, recent statistics show that over 42% of site administrators across the web use WordPress, and many of these sites still don’t have an SSL certificate installed. The Importance of SSL For the past several years, SSL has become increasingly […]
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Find & Fix the Japanese Keyword Hack[Complete Guide]
Japanese keywords showing up randomly on your website search results can be perplexing. If you don’t already know why, it is the result of malware on your site. The Japanese keyword hack is confounding on many levels. Website owners experience many symptoms in the beginning, like being unable to login or being redirected when accessing […]
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Critical Vulnerabilities in All in One SEO Plugin Affects Millions of WordPress Websites
Security Risk: High Exploitation Level: Easy CVSS Score: 9.9 / 7.7 Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation, SQL Injection Patched Version: 4.1.5.3 Last week, security researcher at Automattic Marc Montpas recently discovered two severe security vulnerabilities within one of the most popular SEO plugins used by WordPress website owners: All in One SEO. The plugin is used by […]
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How to Find and Fix a WordPress Pharma Hack
Did you know that one quarter of all spam emails are accredited to pharmaceutical ads? Pharma hacks go beyond the inbox and spam websites by redirecting traffic and adding fake keywords and subdomains to the search results. Why, and how did the medical world get tangled up in spam emails, SEO spam, redirects, and website […]
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Log4j Vulnerability: The Perfect Holiday Present that Nobody Wants
A critical server security vulnerability in the Java logging library Log4j is taking the internet by storm because code to actively exploit this vulnerability is already widely distributed across the web. Originally found on the popular game Minecraft, it has since been shown to affect most web servers running Apache along with its ubiquitous logging […]
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How Does WordPress Caching Work?
The goal of every WordPress performance plugin is to reduce the time it takes to deliver a page to visitors. One of the main ways to achieve this is by storing a copy of each page. This is known as “Page Caching“. On a typical unoptimized WordPress website, average page loading times can be around […]
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The Best WordPress Caching Plugins For Improving Website Speed
A fast-loading website will improve the user experience for visitors, reduce bounce rates, increase conversions and improve search engine rankings and traffic. Unfortunately, many WordPress websites are slow. This should not be a surprise as the core version of WordPress does not offer any optimization features and when you start adding content such as text, […]
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