When creating the WordPress security compendium, we checked thousands of accounts to find out how often a break-in occurs. Is this due to weak passwords? Or maybe poorly configured servers in a hosting company? Let’s find out!
7 September 2018 In recent hours, on many pages based on WordPress, instead of the homepage there was a screen for the installation of this CMS. The problem was the lack of the wp-config.php file, which was removed.
7 August 2018 If you already know how to choose a WordPress plug-in and what plugins to install, it’s time to get to know the banned and not recommended to install. Many of them may spoil your website, slow it down or are completely unnecessary.
3 July 2018 WordPress is one of the most popular CMSs in the world. Depending on the statistics, it runs from several to even dozens millions of websites. The increasing popularity of WordPress in Poland translates into the growth of number of the associated attacks. Many of them can be prevented by securing the given website with simple steps.…
14 March 2018 Earlier this year the Let’s Encrypt project announced that it intends to introduce support for wildcard certificates. The work has dragged a little bit, but today we can already enjoy the ability to generate certificates for many subdomains. The ACME protocol, which meets IETF standards, has been updated.
19 February 2018 For several months now, Chrome developers have been trying to educate users that encrypted HTTPS connections are much safer for them. An important step in this respect was the introduction of the Unsecured designation in Chrome 62. It was displayed on pages with forms that did not have markings. It is worth remembering that all…
6 February 2018 Today, a new edition of WordPress 4.9.4 has been released. It contains very important fixes, including security vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, an error in previous editions makes it impossible to upgrade automatically and it is necessary to force them manually. Automatic updates were introduced more than 4 years ago with WordPress 3.7.
5 January 2018 Let’s Encrypt, which appeared on April 12, 2016 does not stop surprising. In 2017, the number of secured pages was increased from 46% to 67% (data from the Mozilla Foundation) for unique domains. In July of that year, the introduction of SSL wildcard certificates was announced. This feature was long awaited by all users. Yesterday,…
20 December 2017 SSL certificates have been a determinant of a properly configured hosting service for many years. Thanks to them we can be sure that the transmission between two computers is fully secure and impossible to decrypt. A few years ago we published an article: Secure SSL configuration on Apache server, where we described how to generate…
18 October 2017 Google has released Chrome 62, an important release for users and those who create or own websites. In this version, new warning messages appear to warn about pages that do not have a secure HTTPS (SSL) connection, but still have forms to be filled in by the user.