Think Like a Hacker with Wordfence
Summary: Mark Maunder co-founded Wordfence in 2011 after his WordPress site was hacked and he learned how hard it was to clean and secure. Today the team has grown to over 35 members world-wide and Wordfence protects over 4 million WordPress sites. On the Think Like a Hacker podcast, we cover interesting topics related to WordPress, security and innovation. Episodes alternate between security news and interviews with innovators from WordPress and information security communities.
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Podcasts:
This week I chat about the Pipdig controversy in full with Mikey Veenstra and Kathy Zant. Kathy and I cover the news. And we have an amazing interview with Raquel Landefeld who is a community organizer for WordPress and the co-founder of agency Mode Effect. Raquel and I chat about her adventures as a mom in tech, Gutenberg, her approach to networking, what it is like being a WordCamp Phoenix organizer and what she is up to for the rest of this year. Enjoy!! ~Mark Maunder
This week we have an update on the Social Warfare plugin vulnerability, how it was more serious than originally thought, and a feud that has broken out between a security researcher and forum moderators. We also have some interesting data on how WordPress will become more secure soon with code signing. And along with several other news items, we have a spectacular interview with Aaron Campbell, the former head of WordPress security. Enjoy!!
This week we have breaking news with a serious vulnerability in the Easy WP SMTP WordPress plugin. We are seeing exploits actively target this vulnerability. We also cover the week's news with Kathy Zant and have a spectacular interview with Cory Miller where he chats about how he started iThemes, why he sold to Liquid Web, some of the challenges of being a founder and what is next for him. Enjoy!!
Welcome to Think Like a Hacker, Episode 2. In this episode Mikey Veenstra, a threat analyst at Wordfence discusses a serious XSS vulnerability in an abandoned cart plugin. We also chat with Adam Warner, a well known figure in the WordPress community. In our interview we chat about Adam's personal WordPress journey, community engagement success and the future of WordPress. And as always we cover the news with Kathy Zant.
Josepha Haden is the Executive Director of the WordPress project at Automattic. She oversees and directs all contributor teams in their work to build and maintain WordPress. Josepha can be found at https://josepha.blog. In our news segment, we talk about recent vulnerabilities in the Freemius library affecting WordPress plugins, the CoinHive shutdown, and why potential changes in WordPress core development will benefit end users' security and more.
