Security News

Million-plus sites hosted on WordPress.com get free SSL (Help Net Security)
2016-04-11 16:37

Friday brought some very good news for existing and future owners of sites hosted on WordPress.com: they will be getting HTTPS protection without having to pay for an SSL certificate or trouble...

WordPress Turns On Free Encryption (Threatpost)
2016-04-11 13:19

WordPress announced that all custom domains hosted on WordPress.com will have HTTPS turned on for free.

Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations (Help Net Security)
2016-04-05 19:33

Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a fake jQuery script...

Popular WordPress plugin opens backdoor, steals user credentials (Help Net Security)
2016-03-07 20:07

If you are one of the 10,000+ users of the Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM) WordPress plugin, consider your site to be compromised and proceed to clean your installation up, Sucuri Security...