A WordPress plugin is an application that allows you to add new functionality to your WordPress site. Just like apps do for your smartphone.

If you are familiar with WordPress, you have probably encountered what’s called the “Repository of free WordPress plugins”. Essentially, the repository is a large digital repository of free WordPress plugins that can be installed with a few clicks through the admin interface of WordPress itself on any website that uses – WordPress.

Currently, the repository contains almost 60,000 plugins with over one billion and 240 million downloads. Each of these plugins (at least most of them) brings certain features to a WordPress website, to put it in layman’s terms – they enhance its capabilities. But are these plugins safe to use, who creates them, maintains them, and who even reviews the plugins before they appear in the official WordPress plugin repository?

The creator and co-founder of WordPress CMS is Matt Mullenweg while his company Automattic Corporation owns WordPress.com. Every plugin published there goes through a manual review before it becomes publicly available.

But is everything as secure and vetted? The recent interesting incidents suggest that there are loopholes in the WordPress plugin ecosystem that can be abused to hack and infect a large number of websites. Let us see how and why.

Authors of the WordPress Plugins

The authors of the plugins in the free WordPress repository are people with different profiles, from all over the world, with different programming skills, with different goals and intentions. It’s a motley crew that’s hard to describe in a few sentences.

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Hurray! We’re so excited to announce Virusdie plugin for WordPress websites! What is this? This is the most easiest automatic website security plugin for WordPress in the industry with highest performance in the industry! An explosion blend of simplicity and power you are all love!

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Logs are perhaps one of the most valuable tools available to troubleshoot issues with systems and applications. Logs are hardly new or controversial; in fact, both developers and administrators have been using them for a very long time to understand why things break down and how to fix them.

Logs come in all shapes and sizes, from security and performance logs to activity logs – different systems and processes collect different records. Regardless of the type, logs include a list of events that happen within the application’s or system’s confines, listed in chronological order. In particular, activity logs record activities occurring within a system or application, such as WordPress.

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All WordPress files: themes, plugins and downloads are stored on your website and can become a real mess.

What Are the Benefits of Understanding WordPress File and Directory Structure?

You don’t have to know anything about WordPress to run a WordPress website. You can, however, solve many common problems by understanding how WordPress saves files and uses directories.

You can achieve that by following this guide:

– Understand which WordPress files and folders are part of core;
– To understand how WordPress stores your images and media in a library;
– Where WordPress stores themes and plugins;
– Where WordPress configuration files are stored;
– With this information, you’ll also know which WordPress files should be backed up.

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SEO is a complicated, ever-changing game. If you find that traffic on your website has suddenly dropped, the culprit could be the search engine. This problem should be addressed as soon as possible, as a decline in search engine rankings can result not only in potential customers leaving, but also in lost sales.

Fortunately, there is truth to the matter. You can file a complaint and affect the penalties, but it is important to know how to recognize if your website has been penalized and how to check the result. Our article gives you some tips on how to accomplish that.

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WordPress is a great platform for building websites. It is easy to use and has an active community to help you when things go wrong. However, there are some issues with the software itself: Many plugins and themes have been abandoned by their developers or are simply no longer maintained. This can lead to security issues and other bugs on your site. And if you do not update them regularly, they could even be used as attack vectors against your website!

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Phishing is a form of online fraud – phishing emails and phishing websites are used as bait to steal personal information and identities, usually following on from emptying bank computers or damaging businesses.

Online scams are not unknown to us. There is hardly anyone who has not received an email in our bad native language from an unknown victim who has a million dollars in his account and for some unknown reason cannot get to it, so he needs our selfless help and personal information to selflessly share his treasure with us later. The messages are varied and fanciful, but it is immediately clear that this is a scam, an online fraud attempt, criminal activity under a common name – phishing.

Just as the messages and the addresses they were sent from resemble some real-life situations and known addresses, the word phishing, when pronounced, sounds like “phishing,” which means “fishing” in English language. Fishing, angling, hunting in the mud, that’s exactly what phishing is at its core, and the methods are different and more sophisticated.

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Hurray! We’re so happy to inform you that now, after a long-long night of hardwork, the transfer of all our sign in and sign up and verification services been completed! And now it runs AWS – Amazon Web Servces. Why we did that? It is simple, to get more flexibility in grow. To host our project in US to get lowest ping time for the majority of our clients. And to fix email delivery and DNS issue as well!

Next, we’ll transfer our main infrastructure to AWS as well! Stay tuned!

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Nowadays, hackers have various ways to break into and hack various websites and accounts. Unfortunately, with the blossoming and advancement of technology, there are more and more hackers, so there is a growing chance that you will come across a hacker at some point, especially if you’re well-known on the Internet and make money from it.

One of the methods receiving email from hackers with a cooperation proposal. For example, if you make a recording for YouTube, they will send you a link to their app and tell you that they will pay you lot of money if you advertise their new product on your YouTube channel. However, this is not a real app, but when you click on the link, the hacker gets the information they need to hack your website.

Another option is a password recognition program. This program randomly outputs a large number of various combinations of numbers, letters and special characters to guess your password. Such programs can output over 1.000 combinations per minute. So, it is no wonder that after a few hours or maybe even days of continuous operation, it will come across your password.

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On May 3, 1978, the first spam message was sent via email. The culprit was Gary Thuerk, which sent propaganda material to 293 different addresses on what was then ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet, developed within the US Department of Defense).

The material sent contained an advertisement for new computers from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). Recipients of the initial spam were upset, but the whole promotion still led to an increase in sales of these computers. The name SPAM for such messages comes from a sketch by Monty Python, where it referred to a kind of canned dish, similar to a meat breakfast, that appears as an ingredient in all dishes in a restaurant.

Today, electronic spam accounts for 80-85% of all global email traffic. The leading spam generator in the world is the US (13.21%), followed by China (11.25%), Vietnam (9.85%), India (7.02%) and Germany (5.66%).

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What is File Sharing? It is the act of allowing two or more people who have been given access to the same file to share that file with other people.

There are many ways that you can put your personal or business information at risk when using the Internet. One of the most common ways is through email. Anyone can send an email message to another person without them ever knowing it came from you. Using a free email account for important communications is not recommended. Instead, you should consider another form of communication, such as by phone or face-to-face.

If someone else is monitoring the emails going out from that account, they can see all the email addresses you are sending messages to. This will give them a link to click on to find out who you are and send you an email message. This is called a “phishing” attack and is a very serious form of identity theft.

The more information you reveal about yourself, the more the identity thief knows about you. We have all seen or heard about the news reports about identity theft. Identity theft and credit score ruin have happened to people. For some, their lives have been completely ruined by identity theft.

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Did you know July 2021 we made a huge landing pages and design code update for Virusdie since 2016? Here is what we did for that – The new Virusdie design code announcement. And that was ton of hardwork behind that. So we just want to share some video with our memories about one of the final stages of that task – making media content for new landing pages. Here in Virusdie we love unique approach and passion. And that is why a part of Virusdie team have made a flight for 1500 km into snowy mountains to Olympic Sochi to make unique photo and video for landing, instead of using stock photos! 🙂

That is how we did that – Watch video on Vimeo.

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Running WordPress or any other CMS (content management system) without adequate security is like owning a warehouse and leaving the key under the rug for thieves. However, despite security, hacking is turning into new reality for a lot of internet entrepreneurs, content producers, and marketers.

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At last, the Virusdie add-on for WHMCS (beta) is here! Start earning money by offering website security to all of your shared hosting customers like the big hosting providers, but without complex integration and effortlessly — with just one click! (more…)

What is web scraping? The term scraping literally means “to scrape”; in the context of the Web, it refers to a technique of searching, extracting, structuring, and cleaning data to publish information contained in formats of the Web environment that cannot be reused, such as tables created in HTML (a different type of scraping than Web is used to capture data from PDF).

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At last, the great feature – website hardening (a virtual patch management) available with Virusdie! This feature is something in the middle between real patch management engine and the website firewall. So that helps you get some additional protection against attacks on your website vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities in code are still on your website! (more…)

As of June 1, a QR code will be required at the entrance to locked rooms to verify a person’s Covid status, meaning officially these certificates will be called “digital green certificates”. What is a QR code and how can you read it?

Barcodes play an important role in today’s world, which is all about speed and precision. There are few better ways to quickly classify hundreds of thousands of products, track inventory and warehouse organization, and other potential applications in industry and beyond. Barcodes are nothing more than an optical representation of data that can be read by computers or other devices (barcodes are read by a scanner and interpreted by appropriate software). (more…)

Please welcome, the Virusdie API for “big boy” integration. Now stable, and officially available! And starting at $0.00 with a Freemium plan! So, if you’re a hosting provider, domain name registrar, software developer, or web service provider, you can make significantly more money by offering website security services to your customers using Virusdie’s cloud platform. Simply use our API to integrate Virusdie into your environment. (more…)