More than 60 million people and businesses use WordPress to run their websites or blogs, according to founder Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is a free, open-source blogging platform and content-management ...
WordPress gives away free software that helps people create rich, compelling blogs. At the heart of every WordPress blog lies an important database. This database is critical because it contains all ...
In last week’s post, I wrote about a useful plugin for backing up your WordPress site. Backups are vitally important, especially for those of us who use our sites for professional purposes (for some ...
A popular WordPress quiz plugin can be abused to mount SQL injection attacks ...
A popular WordPress vulnerability has been found carrying a critical vulnerability which allowed hackers to attack websites, steal sensitive data, and even force them offline. The vulnerability, ...
More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries.
WordPress has been beleaguered by various forms of attack in recent years. That’s largely because the content management system is used by nearly a fifth of all sites on the internet, thereby making ...
An attack over the weekend unsuccessfully targeted 1.3 million WordPress websites, in attempts to download their configuration files and harvest database credentials. Attackers were spotted targeting ...
In my last article, I took an initial look at nginx, the high-performance open-source HTTP that uses a single process and a single thread to service a large number of requests. nginx was designed for ...