This morning, WebDevStudios announced Dre Armeda—co-host of DradCast and co-founder of the popular website security company, Sucuri—as their new Vice President of Operations. This is exciting news, and we’re eager to see what innovation and progress comes from it! I reached out to Dre directly to understand his motives for joining the WebDevStudios team, and how his new role will impact his positioning in the WordPress Space. When I asked Dre why he decided to make the move, he said: I get really excited about building and growing ideas into something real. WebDevStudios is very real and in a great place. . .It […]
The Next Phase in Sucuri’s Lifecycle: Interview with Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri
WordPress security, and website security more broadly, is constantly improving to address evolving security threats. Sucuri, a popular website security company, is stepping up its game to take security to the next level. Just last week the company announced its new partnership with Yoast. According to the announcement, this partnership comes at a time when Sucuri is undergoing some other big changes in messaging and branding. To better understand what this means for the future of Sucuri (and their approach to wesbsite security), I reached out to Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri, for some insight. Here’s what he said: Q: Can you elaborate on […]
Are You Going to WordCamp NYC?
WordCamp NYC kicks off Friday with contributor day—a day geared towards contributing to the WordPress project—at NYU Kimmel Center! The main event, on Saturday and Sunday, will be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge. The WordPress-centric event is one of the most heavily-anticipated WordCamps of the year, and draws WordPress developers, designers, enthusiasts, and users from all around the world. This year, WordCamp NYC features a most impressive group of speakers. Speakers are scheduled to present on trending topics such as WordPress tools and development, security, entrepreneurship, REST API, and more. Who knows, maybe we’ll even hear more about […]
MailPoet Vulnerability Compromises Thousands of WordPress Sites
On Tuesday, Sucuri reported a large-scale concerted attack injecting malware into WordPress sites, causing them to break. Upon further investigation, Sucuri researchers discovered that the exploitation is happening through a recent vulnerability found in the popular WordPress plugin MailPoet. In Sucuri’s blog post, Daniel Cid, CTO and Founder of Sucuri, stated, To be clear, the MailPoet vulnerability is the entry point, it doesn’t mean your website has to have it enabled or that you have it on the website; if it resides on the server, in a neighboring website, it can still affect your website. Even sites within the same […]
Sucuri Reports Malware Infection Targeting WordPress Sites
Earlier today, Sucuri reported a malware infection targeting WordPress sites! The announcement indicates: The last few days has brought about a massive influx of broken WordPress websites. What makes [this infection] so unique is that the malicious payload is being blindly injected which is causing websites to break. The malware targets WordPress sites through vulnerabilities such as weak admin passwords and outdated plugins. According to Sucuri, upon infiltration the infector PHP corrupts WordPress core files, as well as theme and plugin files—leaving PHP errors displayed in the place of content throughout the infected site. Sucuri is continuing to investigate and will provide details as […]
Q&A with Co-Founder of WooThemes, Magnus Jepson
Last Wednesday, WooThemes celebrated its 6th birthday, which in startup years is no small feat! Throughout its life cycle, WooThemes has evolved alongside WordPress, and established itself as a leading WordPress theme and plugin provider. In fact, WooThemes has even built the leading eCommerce plugin for WordPress—WooCommerce. I had the pleasure of emailing with Magnus Jepson—one of the co-founders of WooThemes—and he was kind enough to answer my questions regarding the hardships, accomplishments, and growth that WooThemes has experienced over the years. Here’s what he had to say: As the co-founder of WooThemes, does the vision you had 6 years ago […]
WP Engine Partners with SIDEKICK: An inside Look at the New Interactive Tutorials
Providing excellent customer support is something that most businesses aim to achieve. Customer service not only reflects heavily on a company, but (for many businesses) it’s integral to their overall product. WP Engine has recently bolstered its customer service experience by enhancing the User Portal and partnering with SIDEKICK—a service that provides interactive walkthroughs of web apps. The improved User Portal enables WP Engine customers to more efficiently manage their installations. According to the WP Engine blog announcement, the interactive tutorials are part of the Austin-based startup’s ongoing initiative to provide exceptional customer service. The tutorials provide customers with immediate, step-by-step guidance for completing specific tasks. […]
Vulnerability Discovered in WordPress MailPoet Newsletters Plugin
The research team at Sucuri has identified a vulnerability found in the very popular WordPress plugin—MailPoet Newsletters. An announcement by Sucuri urges those running the MailPoet Newsletters plugin to update immediately! The flaw was discovered by Marc-Alexandre Montpas, a member of the Sucuri research team, a few weeks ago, and was immediately reported to the MailPoet team. Earlier today, 2.6.7 was released, which includes a patch for the vulnerability and is the only safe version available. The flaw enables attackers to upload any PHP file to vulnerable sites. The site can then be used by the attacker to distribute SPAM, host malware, infect other […]
Will 2014 Be Remembered as the Year of WordPress Security?
Are you familiar with the hypothesis ‘there’s safety in numbers’? It’s the idea that by being part of a large group, an individual is less likely to be the victim of a bad event. Well, when it comes to internet security, the WordPress community has definitely proven this concept to be true. The robust community built around the open-source platform WordPress has cultivated a knowledgeable, caring, and secure environment. Wednesday at the WordPress San Francisco Meetup, Brennen Byrne (CEO and co-founder of Clef) addressed this idea head on, when he gave a presentation on how the WordPress community is building […]
Nest Launches Developer Program
On Monday, Nest launched the Nest Developer Program, which allows developers to use the Nest API to integrate with a wide range of Nest products. The launch comes roughly five months after Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion, and a day before the Google I/O conference here in San Francisco. Nest has partnered with some notable companies like Mercedes-Benz, Jawbone, and Whirlpool to create an entire network of ‘Works with Nest:’ ‘Works with Nest’ makes it possible for your Nest devices to securely interact with the things you already use every day, both inside and outside of your home For on-the-go […]
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