WordPress

Attackers are actively exploiting the recently patched unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in WordPress’ REST API to deface websites. Sucuri, the company …

Last week WordPress released the newest version (4.7.2) of the popular CMS, ostensibly fixing three security issues affecting versions 4.7.1 and earlier. What the WordPress …

WordPress 4.6.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and all users are strongly encouraged to update their sites immediately. The two …

In their quest to compromise WordPress installations and prevent site owners from discovering it and cleaning up the website, blackhat SEO spammers have turned to modifying …

If an approach works well, there is no reason to change tack, and the masters of the SoakSoak botnet are obviously of the same belief. A year and a half after they have been …

Over a third of all websites on the Internet are powered by one of these four key open source platforms: WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and Magento. This makes the life of …

Friday brought some very good news for existing and future owners of sites hosted on WordPress.com: they will be getting HTTPS protection without having to pay for an SSL …

News items based on the so-called “Panama Papers,” a set of 11.5 million documents leaked from the networks of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, keep popping …

Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a …

If you are one of the 10,000+ users of the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) WordPress plugin, consider your site to be compromised and proceed to clean your installation up, …

Many WordPress websites are still being misused to perform layer 7 DDoS attacks against target servers, even though preventing them from participating in these attacks is as …

Popular international Bitcoin crowd-lending platform Loanbase has suffered a security breach, and is currently offline. The breach was discovered on Saturday and made public …