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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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How Malware Gets On Your Website
Almost since the Internet’s inception malware infections have kept pace to be the biggest nuisance a site owner experiences. With an ever growing amount of sites making up the World Wide Web, malware infections only become more common. In this article we’ll discuss what malware is, the various types we’ve come across, the methods used […]
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E-commerce Website Security Strategy for Holiday Shopping Season
As shopping season approaches once again, we’d like to give you some helpful advice when it comes to managing an e-commerce site, and how to avoid being the target of an attack. Due to the pandemic, more people are spending their time shopping for gifts online than ever before. Global e-commerce sales are projected to […]
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1.6 Million WordPress Sites Hit With 13.7 Million Attacks In 36 Hours From 16,000 IPs
Today, on December 9, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that make it possible for attackers to update arbitrary options on vulnerable sites. This led us into an investigation which uncovered an active attack targeting over a million WordPress sites. Over the past 36 hours, the Wordfence network […]
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GoDaddy Data Breach 2021: What Happened and How It Affects You
GoDaddy, one of the biggest web hosts, discovered a data breach on November 17th, 2021. The WordPress community has been discussing the Godaddy data breach implications because the primary target of the security breach was GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress customers. The trouble with this sort of news is that there is always a lot of noise […]
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PHP Re-Infectors – The Malware that Keeps On Giving
We all know why bad actors infect sites: monetary gain, boosts in SEO ratings for their malware or spam campaigns and a number of other reasons explained in our post on hacker’s motivations. It defeats the purpose of the attack if the malware is easily and quickly removed. Attackers have developed some methods for protecting […]
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