It is possible to determine the version of WordPress Core that a site is running through a number of methods. The simplest is where in the default configuration WordPress reports the version in the Meta Generator Tag within the HTML of the page. Another l... (more…)

Nmap is one our favorite tool when it comes to security testing (except for WPScans.com). Nmap was created in 1997 by Gordon Lyon aka Fyodor. The current version 7.60 contains about 580 different NSE-scripts (Nmap Scripting Engine) used for different secu... (more…)

Millions of websites running WordPress are being strongly urged to update to the latest version of the popular content management system as soon as possible, after a serious security vulnerability was uncovered. (more…)

Learning about Kubernetes, in the beginning, would feel like drinking from a fire-hose. They have a number of various abstractions to solve various problems, all related to one essential goal -… (more…)

As an interesting research project, Pan Vagenas, one of our researchers, took a closer look at abandoned plugins in the WordPress repository. His work was inspired by a recent post by Isabel Castillo where she lists the oldest abandoned plugins in the Wor... (more…)