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Latest Blog Posts

You Don't Need a Plugin To Have WordPress Send Email Through SMTP
If you want to improve the security of your WordPress website, removing unneeded plugins is a good idea. Every additional plugin you have is more code that could be insecure. One place that a lot of websites could do that is with their usage of a plugin to have email sent through SMTP instead of directly through the server the website is hosted on. There are millions of websites using plugins to d... Read More

Magento Carding Request Coming Through Magento's GraphQL API
When it comes to dealing with security issues with Magento websites or other types of websites, we can't emphasize enough the value of bringing in someone with more security expertise to help deal with it. We recently were brought in to help upgrading a Magento website, where there also was an ongoing issue with a form of carding. The carding here involved someone testing if stolen credit cards we... Read More

Your WordPress Web Host Might Not Really Your Web Host
The current situation with WordPress has exposed a lot of things about WordPress that have largely been hidden away. The lawsuit filed by WP Engine against the company closely associated with WordPress and its CEO focused a lot on that. Seemingly unrelated to that, it also quoted someone that made quite an admission. They claim to host websites, but as they then admit just a sentence later, they a... Read More

WP Engine Isn’t Hacking WordPress, It Is Using Functionality That WordPress Provides as Intended
Right now the head of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, is doing a lot of damage to everyone else that is involved in WordPress. The direct cause of this is that he is trying to extort a competitor of his for-profit company Automattic. One of his tactics that has been successful in tricking some people that are not familiar with how WordPress works, is claiming the competitor is hacking WordPress to do t... Read More

What Hacker Does When They Try to Regain Access to a Hacked WordPress Website Through a Backdoor
A couple of months ago, we talked about the difference between a website that is repeatedly hacked due to an unaddressed vulnerability and a backdoor. How you handle those situations is also different and you need to figure out which has occurred to handle it right. One way to help figure out which is occurring is to review the log files of requests to the website, after the website has been clean... Read More