Installing an SSL certificate on Site5
Site5.com does not support free LetsEncrypt certificates and only offers paid SSL certificates with their hosting plans. This means you do not use the Really Simple SSL wizard to install an SSL certificate on your website. Really Simple SSL will still assist you in making sure all your content is served over SSL en properly configure other relevant SSL & security settings. You will need to order an ssl certificate and install it manually. The installation instructions depend on the
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 Still, statistics suggest only about 50% of hacked WordPress sites were running outdated software.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
Number of reported WordPress Plugin & Theme vulnerabilities doubled in the first 6 months of 2023
We recently introduced vulnerability detection in Really Simple SSL and have been working on a database of vulnerabilities sourced from the open WordPress Vulnerability Database API project (https://www.wpvulnerability.com) since the beginning of 2023. We have been monitoring WordPress plugin and Theme vulnerabilities for years and have seen an increase in reported vulnerabilities yearly. Having access to detailed information in our own database enabled us to look closer into the details and numbers. We were surprised to find the number of
Vulnerability Detection for WordPress
WP Vulnerabilities – An open-source initiative WP Vulnerabilities is an open-source, free API by Javier Casares with contributions from other open-source, freely available databases and many manual hours from moderators and security officers from other plugins, including our own security officer. Really Simple SSL mirrors the free database with its own instance to secure stability and deliverability, but of course provides the origin database with an API to enrich, or improve its current data. An open-source platform, with an enormous
The Chrome lock icon deprecated in September 2023
The Chrome lock icon is on its way out. When Really Simple SSL started many years ago, more than 50% of the Chrome page loads did not use HTTPS. On a broader spectrum, the web was not encrypted by SSL/TLS for even less than that, topping a mere 14% in 2013. This year Chrome is expecting a stable coverage of 99% of page loads to be over HTTPS. But why is the lock being replaced? The padlock icon instills a