Tag: WordPress

March 1, 2017

More than 1 million websites running the WordPress content management system may be vulnerable to hacks that allow visitors to snatch password data and secret keys out of databases, at least under certain conditions. The vulnerability stems from a “severe” […]

November 2, 2016

Last Friday, Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg—the founding developer of the WordPress open source blogging and content management platform—posted an open letter on his personal blog accusing the developers of the blogging site Wix of essentially stealing WordPress code for a […]

May 31, 2016

Owners of WordPress-based websites should update the Jetpack plug-in as soon as possible because of a serious flaw that could expose their users to attacks. Jetpack is a popular plug-in that offers free website optimization, management and security features. It […]

July 26, 2015

This week WordPress released the latest edition of its recurring transparency report, revealing 43 percent of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests it received have been rejected in the first six months of 2015. It’s the lowest six-month […]

July 24, 2015

Developers of the popular WordPress blogging platform have released a critical security update to fix a vulnerability that can be exploited to take over websites. WordPress 4.2.3, released Thursday, resolves a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could allow users with […]

May 7, 2015

A vulnerability within two widely used WordPress plugins is already being exploited by hackers, putting millions of WordPress sites at risk, according to a computer security firm. The plugins are JetPack, a customization and performance tool, and Twenty Fifteen, used […]

April 8, 2015

The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned Tuesday that attackers claiming to be sympathetic to the extremist group ISIS are targeting websites that have vulnerable WordPress plugins. The content management system has a thriving community of third-party developers who have created […]

March 16, 2015

Police and FBI are investigating defacement attacks on numerous North American websites in which attackers placed an ISIS flag banner on website home pages and played an Arabic song in the background, as reported by NBC News. The sites appear […]