What CMS Is This Site Using?

Sure, as Website Psychiatrists focusing on WordPress sites, we can identify a WordPress site in 3.14 seconds. But on those occasions where are evaluating an non-WordPress site, it’s handy to know what engine a site is running on. Enter the extremely handy website: What CMS is This Site Using? Just give it it the website … Read more

Active Attack on Recently Patched Duplicator Plugin Vulnerability Affects Over 1 Million Sites

A critical security update was recently issued for Duplicator, one of the most popular plugins in the WordPress ecosystem. Over a million WordPress sites were affected by a vulnerability allowing attackers to download arbitrary files from victim sites. We urge all Duplicator users to update to version 1.3.28 as soon as possible. We are detecting … Read more

Critical Vulnerability In Profile Builder Plugin Allowed Site Takeover

Earlier this week, a critical vulnerability was patched in the Profile Builder plugin for WordPress. This vulnerability affected the free version available on the WordPress.org repository, as well as the commercial Pro and Hobbyist variants. According to the WordPress repository more than 50,000 sites are running the free version of Profile Builder, and our estimates suggest there … Read more

WP-VCD Evolves To Remain Most Prevalent WordPress Infection

Wordfence update on WP-VCD WP-VCD is still infecting more new sites per week than any other active malware campaign. Even after publishing a paper on the campaign, Wordfence has yet to identify any meaningful change in the rate of new infections. And an excellent tip on monitoring your website: Periodically visit your sites from new devices and … Read more

WordPress 5.3 Released

The release of WordPress 5.3 brings even more functionality and features to the Gutenberg block editor. This is an exciting continuation of the path that WordPress started with version 5.0. We’re ecstatic to see this commitment to eliminating the mess that has been caused by the proliferation of page builders. The consistency that had been … Read more

WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site

Wordfence report on WP-VCD One of the most prevalent malware infections facing the WordPress ecosystem in recent weeks is a campaign known as WP-VCD. Despite the relatively long existence of the campaign, the Wordfence threat intelligence team has associated WP-VCD with a higher rate of new infections than any other WordPress malware every week since … Read more

Domain Name Selection

How do you pick a good domain name? Sadly, many of the good domain names are long gone. So keep this thought in mind: Domain names ending with “.com” are still the highest “value” for your online identity. Be warned, if you settled on a “.net”, “.biz”, “.us”, or any of the other dozen top … Read more

Handy tools for manipulating text

If you need to manipulate text, Text Mechanic™ – Text Manipulation Tools has a boatload of tools to use, including: Add Prefix/Suffix into Line Add/Remove Line Breaks Count Characters, Words, Lines Delimited Column Extractor Find and Replace Text Line Combination Generator Remove Duplicate Lines Remove Empty Lines Remove Extra Spaces We even used Text Mechanic™ … Read more

SPF Checker

Update 5/11/2023: DMARC analyzer has shut down their SPF lookup tool. Here’s another that will count the lookups: DMARCly. dmarc analyzer is, hands down, our favorite SPF checker. Not only does it validate the domain’s SPF record, it expands out all of the calls, AND tells you the count of the DNS lookups. One of … Read more

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