With new tools it is easier to reach your customers and readers through email. Gone are the days where you send emails manually. The article we’re sharing today teaches how to use email marketing for your blog. How To Create An RSS To Email Campaign For Your Blog by Brenda Barron When you write a […]
OpenSSL Security Advisory of 19 March 2015
Today there were multiple vulnerabilities released in OpenSSL, a cryptographic library used by CloudFlare (and most sites on the Internet). There has been advance notice that an announcement would be forthcoming, although the contents of the vulnerabilities were kept closely controlled and shared only with major operating system vendors until this notice. Based on our […]
The Impacts of a Hacked Website
Today, with the proliferation of open-source technologies like WordPress, Joomla! and other Content Management Systems (CMS) people around the world are able to quickly establish a virtual presence with little to no cost. In the process however, a lot is being lost in terms of what it means to own a website. We are failing […]
Bloom — The Ultimate Email Opt-In Plugin For WordPress
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 […]
