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WordPress Security Scanning

With WordPress powering over 30% of the internet and a plugin ecosystem that allows anyone to write software which will execute code on your server, it’s no wonder that it’s become a popular target for hackers. As part of our Vulnerability Scanning service – which already checks for thousands of known software and configuration vulnerabilities for all major software products and operating systems – we now also test over 10,000 known WordPress vulnerabilities.

SREcon 2018 Americas

Getting paged at 11pm on New Year’s Eve because the application code used sprintf %d on a 32 bit system and your ids just passed 4.295 billion, sending the ids negative and crashing your object service. A wakeup call at 2 am (or is it 3 am?) on the ‘spring forward’ Daylight Savings transition because your timezone libraries didn’t incorporate one of the several dozen new politically mandated timezone changes.

Monitoring (with) Elasticsearch: A few more circles of hell

This is the second part of our two-part article series devoted to Elasticsearch monitoring. The heading of this article refers to Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno”, in which Dante offers a tour through the nine increasingly terrifying levels of hell. Our journey into Elasticsearch monitoring was also filled with hardships, but we have overcome them and found solutions for each case.