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Tag Archives: Lindsey O’Donnell

26 Aug 2019

Wordfence Keeps Hiding That Other Security Companies Are Actually Doing the Work to Keep Ahead of Hackers

On multiple occasions the team behind the Wordfence Security plugin have failed to credit us when discussing vulnerabilities we discovered. We are not alone in that it turns out and unfortunately journalists will cover them and not give any credit to other security companies that are actually doing the work to keep ahead hackers (which is how Wordfence falsely markets their Wordfence Premium service of doing).

Here is part of an article the Threatpost (which is itself secretly owned by a security company) from Friday that showed up in a Google alert we have: [Read more]

11 Jan 2019

The Mess that is Imperva’s Claim That WordPress Vulnerabilities Tripled in 2018

A good rule of thumb based on what we have seen over the years is that stats on security are probably not accurate. So it isn’t surprising that when we looked into a claim by a company named Imperva that WordPress vulnerabilities tripled in 2018, it was a mess, but that hasn’t stopped security journalists from repeating the claim.

When we ran across the claim our first question was what the source of their data was and looking at Imperva’s post they only give a vague explanation: [Read more]