Posts Tagged ‘WordPress Security’
WordCamp Chicago 2014: WordPress Security Is All About the Basics
Recently I had the opportunity to share my insights from the past five years working at Sucuri at WordCamp Chicago 2014 held at the University Center in downtown Chicago. My talk, WordPress Security: It’s All About the Basics, focused on experiences with end-user security issues and threats in the web security industry. With the goal…
Read MoreWordCamp Philly 2014: The Key to WordPress Security Is Awareness
This past weekend, I had the opportunity to speak about WordPress Security at WordCamp Philly 2014 as part of the Power User Track. It’s critical to understand that the key to website security is awareness — and that is exactly what we achieve in this talk. Getting down to the basics and sharing insight that…
Read MoreWordCamp Minneapolis 2014: The Basics Of WordPress Security
Over the years, I have seen and experienced an amazing amount of security threats, vulnerabilities, malware attacks, and other problems website owners face. Recently I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp Minneapolis 2014 on The Basics of WordPress Security, specifically targeted for the website owner or end user. In this presentation, I share insights…
Read MoreWordCamp Las Vegas 2013: Real WordPress Security, Kill The Noise!
This month I joined my business partner Dre Armeda at WordCamp Las Vegas 2013 to speak about web security. Our presentation, titled Real WordPress Security, Kill The Noise! cut through the false sense of security many website owners enjoy to address the real security issues, threats, and vulnerabilities facing WordPress websites and their owners. But…
Read MoreWordPress Security: Learning From Hacks
This evening I will be giving a presentation at WordSesh at midnight PST (0800 UTC). This goal of this presentation is to learn from hacks as the name implies. It’s fairly straight forward to talk about hardening and malware, it’s something different all together to understand the attackers. That’s what this presentation attempts to do…
Read MoreForensics: Analyzing a WordPress Attack / Hack
Recently one of our honeypots was it by an attacker and in the process we were able to gather a bunch of good intelligence on the actions taken by the attacker. I write and detail the forensics of the attack in my latest post, for Sucuri: Case Study: Analyzing a WordPress Attack – Dissecting the…
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