SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2015) - Wordfence, which makes the Web's most popular security plugin for WordPress, today announced the industry's first Password Auditing Tool for WordPress.

Wordfence is a popular WordPress security plugin. Among the features are scanner that monitors for hacked files and a firewall with regularly updated rules that proactively blocks malicious bots.

Effectively managing your own passwords under any circumstances is hard work but managing your users’ passwords on a WordPress installation can become the job from hell. Say you’re the admin of a ...

A popular WordPress plugin was found carrying two flaws that can cause data leaks.

Typically what happens is that a plugin contains a weakness (a vulnerability) that allows an attacker to compromise individual sites that use that version of a plugin. But these compromises are ...

WordPress is one of the most popular and thus commonly used content management systems (CMS) on the web. However, it has a particular problem with add-on, extension, and plug-in authors abandoning ...

A new malware campaign targeting WordPress sites employs a malicious plugin disguised as a security tool to trick users into installing and trusting it. According to Wordfence researchers, the malware ...

Hackers have come up with a never-before-seen method of installing backdoored plugins on websites running the open-source WordPress CMS, and this new technique relies on using weakly protected ...

It's an interesting paradox. WordPress powers 35 percent of all websites on the Internet, in part because it's so flexible and modular. It has a robust library of more than 50,000 plugins, each adding ...