Swift Insights
It’s Not You. It’s Them. On Hacking and Responsible Disclosure.
A story was recently posted to Hacker News celebrating a hack of IoT devices at a school that let a student and their friends rickroll the school via a video system. On the one hand, this guy is my personal hero and I want to be them. But I’m a cybersecurity...
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Brizy Page Builder Plugin Allow Site Takeover
Note: To receive disclosures like this in your inbox the moment they’re published, you can subscribe to our WordPress Security Mailing List. On August 19, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the Responsible Disclosure process for Brizy – Page...
Wordfence Helps Enable Education in Uganda
I want to share something very exciting and truly wonderful with you all today. Wordfence just completed a project where we partnered with Far Away Friends, a Denver-based non-profit working in partnership with local leaders in Uganda, to bring light and electricity...
High Severity Vulnerability Patched in Access Demo Importer Plugin
Note: To receive disclosures like this in your inbox the moment they’re published, you can subscribe to our WordPress Security Mailing List. On August 9, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team attempted to initiate the responsible disclosure process for a...
PHP_SELFish Part 2 – Reflected XSS in Easy Social Icons
Today’s post is part two of a two part blog post. It describes a cross site scripting vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons plugin that exploits the PHP_SELF variable. In yesterday’s post, we described another plugin, underConstruction, suffering from a similar...
Are You Losing Sales to Abandoned Shopping Carts?
Are you certain that people are browsing your ecommerce website, but you're just not seeing the sales you'd expect? Statistics show that on average, about 72% of shopping carts are abandoned - that is shoppers add things to their shopping cart, but never check out....
Best Way to Add Video to your Website
A question that often comes up from clients who are managing their own sites is "What is the best way to add video to my website?" While adding video to Wordpress is quite straightforward, and Divi makes it very easy to do, our general recommendation is to embed it...
I updated my web page, why can’t I see the update? It’s the cache.
Have you ever updated your website - or been told that your website has been updated - but you don't see the change? You refresh or reload the page but still don't see it? Most often this is due to you seeing an old copy of the page (the cached version) not the live...
How Investing In Website Maintenance Is An Investment In Your Business
Getting your new website up and running is like welcoming your customers to a stylish new building. You’ve made an investment in the construction and things are running smoothly, clients are finding and using your site to contact you, and you are proud of how...
Top WordPress Plugins We Use On Every Website
Convenience, security, performance. One of the great things about working with WordPress is that there are plugins that allow you to optimize and customize how it works to best suit visitors to the website as well as site administrators. At Swift Updates we’ve been...