How to Test and Secure a WordPress Site
WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world with over 40% of all websites running on this open-source platform. Given its popularity, WordPress’s core source code is regularly reviewed and heavily dissected by its community, making the core software relatively secure when compared to custom-built web applications. However, this doesn’t mean that […]
Protecting Your Web Application From Brute-Force Login Attacks
Capitalising on simplicity, brute-force attacks have long been the noisy and least elegant method of exploiting authentication mechanisms. The origins of brute-force techniques date back to the wartime code breaking of Bletchley Park and have since evolved to become a well known but elementary approach attackers use to gain unauthorised access to services and user […]