Category: Blog
Why WordPress is (in)secure
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) that leads the global market as the most used CMS. According to W3Techs, about ~43% of all websites run on WordPress; which includes those of some of the largest companies in the world. It boasts a large community of users and developers who actively contribute to the project, greatly benefiting the platform’s reliability and security. Still, you might occasionally hear that WordPress is perceived as a target for hackers, which
Our journey towards Really Simple Security
Really Simple SSL has rebranded to Really Simple Security as of version 9.0. Rogier Lankhorst originally launched Really Simple SSL in 2015 as a simple and performant solution to migrate WordPress sites to HTTPS/SSL. Back in 2015, getting WordPress sites up and running over HTTPS/SSL was often a cause for headaches. Website owners had to configure various aspects such as enabling a (performant) redirect from http to https, getting rid of mixed content and account for server-specific variables; to adjust
Enable an efficient and performant firewall
If you’ve ever inspected the access logs of a live WordPress website before, you will undoubtedly have encountered requests from bots; scanning for potentially weak parts of the site that they can further try to exploit. This is where the Really Simple Security Firewall comes into play, which can lock out such malicious traffic from reaching your WordPress site. It can be used to swiftly block malicious actors that attempt to launch attacks against your site. In this article, we will
How valuable is your website?
Thousands of websites get hacked every day. It may not have happened to you, but there is no reason for cybercriminals not to try. People often think it won’t happen to their website because there is nothing to gain for an attacker. You may not be running a webshop, you’re not storing any confidential or valuable data on your website, and you are not even bothered about losing your website because you’re hardly getting any visitors. No one would care
How to protect your WordPress account
According to Forbes, at least 30.000 websites are hacked daily, with a WordPress market share of 40%, which means at least 12.000 WordPress sites get compromised daily. The two leading causes of these hacks are vulnerable software and compromised accounts. Source Ensuring you are always running the latest version of WordPress and plugins and themes will prevent many of these hacks. Still, statistics suggest only about 50% of hacked WordPress sites were running outdated software. Taking into account that there