Introducing Bloom — The Ultimate Email Opt-In Plugin For WordPress Has Arrived! by Nick Roach There are many things that website owners can aspire to collect: shares, likes, fans, and followers; pins, stumbles, digs and retweets; but above them all towers the email subscriber. Emails are effective because the email inbox is a more guarded […]
Understanding WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities
The last 7 days have been very busy with a number of vulnerabilities being disclosed on multiple WordPress plugins. Some of them are minor issues, some are more relevant, while others are what we’d categorize as noise. How are you supposed to make sense of all this? To help provide some clarity on the influx […]
How to Create a Video Slider in WordPress
This article teaches us how to install and set up Soliloquy plugin. How to Create a Video Slider in WordPress Have you seen popular sites using videos in their slider? Do you want to add a video slider in WordPress? In this article, we will show you how to easily create a video slider in […]
How to Create Custom, Trackable, Short URL’s For Your WP Posts
Let’s face it, we hate memorizing let alone remembering those long website addresses. Good thing we can now shorten those long addresses and track it! Here’s how: How to Create Custom, Trackable, Short URL’s For All Your WordPress Posts and Pages by Nathan B. Weller URL shorteners have been around for a while. Their popularity […]
Inverted WordPress Trojan
Trojan (or trojan horse) is software that does (or pretends to be doing) something useful but also contains a secret malicious payload that inconspicuously does something bad. In WordPress, typical trojans are plugins and themes (usually pirated) which may have backdoors, or send out spam, create doorways, inject hidden links or malware. The trojan model […]
Announcing Virtual DNS: DDoS Mitigation and Global Distribution for DNS Traffic
It’s 9am and CloudFlare has already mitigated three billion malicious requests for our customers today. Six out of every one hundred requests we see is malicious, and increasingly, more of that is targeting DNS nameservers. DNS is the phone book of the Internet and fundamental to the usability of the web, but is also a […]
Security Advisory: MainWP-Child WordPress Plugin
Security Risk: Critical Exploitation level: Very Easy/Remote DREAD Score: 9/10 Vulnerability: Password bypass / Privilege Escalation Patched Version: 2.0.9.2 During a routine audit of our Website Firewall (WAF), we found a critical vulnerability affecting the popular MainWP Child WordPress plugin. According to worpdress.org, it is installed on more than 90,000 WordPress sites as as remote administration […]
Deprecating the DNS ANY meta-query type
DNS, one of the oldest technologies running the Internet, keeps evolving. There is a constant stream of new developments, from DNSSEC, through DNS-over-TLS, to a plentiful supply of fresh EDNS extensions. CC BY-ND 2.0 image by Antarctica Bound New DNS Resource Records types are being added all the time. As the Internet evolves, new RR’s […]
Why A Free Obfuscator Is Not Always Free.
We all love our code but some of us love it so much that we don’t want anyone else to read or understand it. When you think about it, that’s understandable – hours and hours of hard dev work, days of testing and weeks (months?, years?) of fixing bugs and after all of this, someone […]
Build Your Own Online Marketplace Using WordPress
The article that we’re sharing today tackles how you can use WordPress for your Marketplace. You’ll learn the difference between eCommerce store and a Marketplace, it’s benefits, necessary tools to build it etc. See below: Build Your Own Online Marketplace Using WordPress Posted on March 5 by Nathan B. Weller The seemingly endless possibilities for […]
