WordPress Security
Practical articles on WordPress security, modern threats, attack prevention, malware protection, and safer website administration.
Get WordPress protected: rename the plugins folder
Giving the plugins folder a new name is one of the most underestimated ways that make your WordPress protection stronger. And yet it’s free and easy. Why it matters and how it works According to our studies at Cerber Lab most hacker attacks and attempts to exploit plugin vulnerabilities assume that all WordPress plugins are located [...]
What the WP Cerber scanner scans and detects
Cerber Security Scanner is a sophisticated and extremely powerful tool that thoroughly scans every folder and inspects every file on a website for traces of malware, trojans, backdoors, changed and new files. The scanner verifies the integrity of WordPress, plugins, and themes and prevents them from being infected with unforeseen [...]
Automated recurring scans and email reporting for WordPress
It’s essential to regularly scan a WordPress powered website for malware and viruses and get scheduled reports. Cerber Security Scanner allows you to easily configure your schedule for automated recurring scanning and automatic malware removal. Once the schedule is configured, the scanner automatically scans the website and sends [...]
Configuring the WP Cerber scanner settings
Cerber Security Scanner is a sophisticated and powerful tool that inspects every single file and every single folder on a website for traces of malware and backdoors, changed, and new suspicious files. The scanner verifies the integrity of WordPress, plugins, and themes and prevents them from being infected with unforeseen malware. When [...]
The WP Cerber scanner for WordPress
A manual scan mode To manually start scanning, go to the Site Integrity admin page and click either the Start Quick Scan button or the Start Full Scan button. Do not close the browser window while the scan is in progress. You can open a new browser tab to do something else on the website. Once the scan has finished, you can close the [...]
Traffic Inspector in a nutshell
Traffic Inspector analyzes incoming HTTP requests, recognizes suspicious, and blocks them before they can harm your website. This security algorithm is enabled by default and in the vast majority of cases requires no configuration. When Traffic Inspector is enabled, the firewall analyzes and blocks malicious and potentially [...]
Cerber Security Professional
Upgrading to Cerber Security Pro not only unlocks the features below but puts you on the upgrade path for unbeatable security features that we’re excited to share in the near future. As of now, our customers get these powerful features and abilities: Cloud-based protection with Global Black List maintained by Cerber Lab. Our cloud [...]
WordPress 4.9.1 Security and Maintenance Release
WordPress 4.9.1 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.
What’s new in WordPress 4.9
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How to stop spam form submissions on your WordPress
Cerber's anti-spam and bot detection engine is capable to protect all contact and registration forms on a website. It’s compatible with virtually any form.
Brute-force, DoS, and DDoS attacks – what’s the difference?
Let's make things clear with these intruder activities that happens every day on any website. How are they dangerous? What tools or plugin can mitigate them? What are chances that we can do that successfully?
Best WordPress Plugins for Two-Factor Authentication
Two-Factor Authentication plugins for WordPress allow you to use a mobile phone to verify yourself before you get inside.
WordPress 4.7.3 – six security issues has been fixed
This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.7.2 and earlier are affected by six security issues: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata. Reported by Chris Andrè Dale, Yorick Koster, and Simon P. Briggs. Control characters can trick [...]
Do not trust those fake domain confirmation emails
If you ever receive a letter any kind that requests to create, download or install some PHP code on your website you must ignore it.
WordPress 4.7.1 – eight security issues have been fixed
Time to update! According to reports WordPress 4.7 and earlier are affected by eight security issues and now they are fixed WordPress Security WP Cerber Bug Bounty Program WordPress Security Managing WordPress application passwords a hassle-free way WordPress Security How To How to Set Your Language for WP Cerber WordPress Security [...]