Articles from Robert Abela

On 27th February 2020, at 9:34PM (CET) we received an email notifying us that our plugin WP Security Audit Log was “temporarily withdrawn from the WordPress.org Plugin directory due to an exploit”. We submitted a fix on Friday, 28th February 2020, at 4:08PM. It only took us 16.5 hours to release the fix. We would […]

Password Policy Manager for WordPress 2.1 is out today! In this plugin update we added a new policy to disable dormant users, support for post login redirect plugins, and several other improvements. This post highlights all that is new and improved in the latest version of Password Policy Manager for WordPress. The dormant WordPress users […]

Whenever you implement a security measure, you should also have some sort of fallback. You do not want to be compromised by the failure of a single component. This is known as defense in depth. When you manage a WordPress website, one of the most important aspects of security is authentication, a.k.a. how you login […]

File integrity monitoring (FIM) allows you to quickly detect file changes on your WordPress site. It is an important part of securing a WordPress site and the way it works is very simple: it compares baseline cryptographic hashes to the current hash of the monitored files. When a change happens, you get an alert. However, […]

Keeping your eCommerce store secure is a must. Not only is it an important source of income for your business, but it also contains sensitive customer information, such as billing details and credit card numbers. Strong passwords can prevent many cyber attacks, but you’ll need a way to enforce them without deterring customers. By creating […]

WPScan is a black box WordPress Security Scanner written in Ruby. Ideal for penetration testers, security professionals and WordPress administrators WPScan can find security weaknesses within a WordPress blog or website.

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is an important part of maintaining the security of a WordPress site. However, 2FA alone isn’t enough to harden your WordPress site authentication. Strong passwords are also an important part, even when using two-factor authentication. In this article we review 2FA, explain how hackers are bypassing it in some cases, and provide […]

These last few weeks we have been busy working on our file integrity monitor plugin for WordPress: Website File Changes Monitor. In this update we focused on improving the coverage of the plugin, so it can detect file changes which it didn’t before. Let’s dive in and see what is new in update 1.4. Detect changes […]

Today we are announcing Password Policy Manager 2.0! We are very excited about this release. Finally, WordPress multisite network administrators can also enforce strong password policies. In this update we have also added the new first time login password change policy. In addition to these new features, we have added several other plugin improvements, as […]

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of Denial of Service (DoS) attack in which the attack comes from multiple hosts as opposed to one, making them very difficult to block. As with any DoS attack, the objective is to make a target unavailable by overloading it in some way. Generally, a DDoS […]