CIA triad is an abbreviation for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CIA triad is considered to be the basis for all information security models. Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are crucial to ensuring the security of information and information systems. Each of three CIA triad parts is essential, and this model can’t work correctly guaranteeing the […]
Imagine waking up to find your WordPress site hacked, your business’s reputation tarnished, and revenue plummeting. Scary, right? Maintaining a high level of security is essential to running a successful WordPress website. Failure to do so may lead to your website being hacked – causing immense damage to your business’s reputation and potentially resulting in […]
Introducing the Patchstack feature to auto-update vulnerable plugins on the Software page on Patchstack App. Patchstack is helping web developers and digital agencies protect their whole client portfolio. Our focus on component security is helping agencies and developers feel more confident in offering care plans and keeping all their sites protected. The auto-update feature available […]
Do you have an SEO ranking drop? Is your website secured? Search engines are going to recommend only websites that they’re sure to be of use to users. This includes security. Way back in August 2014, Google put it in writing that the most basic step in securing a website was something they wanted. They announced […]
This blog post focuses on giving you information about how to test WordPress plugin security with a checklist of tasks. It also explains if all the plugins you find from the WordPress plugin repository are safe or not. Right now, you have access to over 58,000 plugins on WordPress, and each one is approved by the […]
The focus of this blog post is to explain how and why WordPress sites get hacked. Firstly, WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, by far. Almost 40 percent of all websites in the world run on WordPress. BuiltWith tracks over 27 million websites live WordPress sites. That’s a staggering number, an influence similar […]
This article explains what a web application firewall is and how it works. What is a web application firewall? A web application firewall (short for WAF) is an application firewall that monitors, filters, and blocks traffic that may be harmful to your site. Web application firewalls are for blocking and catching malicious traffic before it […]
This article focuses on how to report WordPress vulnerabilities and what kind of different WordPress bug bounty programs there are. Bug bounty platforms and programs are great for crowdsourcing security research for software. Traditionally, software vendors use bug bounty platforms to attract security researchers to find vulnerabilities in their software, and in return, the vendor will pay […]
UPDATE: As of 2022, Patchstack Red Team is known as Patchstack Alliance Patchstack Red Team is the most active bug hunting community for security researchers to earn prizes for finding new vulnerabilities in WordPress core, themes, and plugins. Patchstack Red Team receives scores based on their findings and will get paid based on the monthly […]
We are excited to announce that an Estonian hosting service Veebimajutus and Patchstack have partnered up. The aim of this partnership is to help strengthen the WordPress ecosystem by giving WordPress site owners, agencies and developers information and tools to secure their websites. Veebimajutus has joined Patchstack with a mission to make WordPress security information […]