In a digital world susceptible to malicious practices like hacking and ransomware, backups have become crucial. If you maintain a website, backing up can be the most vital step to protecting yourself ...

A backup plugin is essential to keeping data safe in case of cyberattack or server outage, so we've compiled best backup plugins as rated by Wordpress users. WordPress is a capable, flexible, and ...

If WordPress' default backup system doesn't suit, here are 10 plugins that can help. WordPress has become the leading blogging platform with good reason — it’s powerful, flexible, reliable and ...

The vulnerability affects the popular Updraft Plus WordPress plugin, installed in over 3 million websites. Updraft Plus comes in a free and paid version that allows users to upload backups to a user’s ...

Security researcher at Automattic discovered a vulnerability affecting popular WordPress backup plugin, UpdraftPlus. The vulnerability allowed hackers to download user names and hashed passwords.

It's an interesting paradox. WordPress powers 35 percent of all websites on the Internet, in part because it's so flexible and modular. It has a robust library of more than 50,000 plugins, each adding ...

Security researchers have warned users of a popular WordPress plugin that they need to patch urgently or risk their site being remotely hijacked. Security vendor Wordfence has revealed a new PHP code ...

A critical severity vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with more than 90,000 installs can let attackers gain remote code execution to fully compromise vulnerable websites. Known as Backup Migration, ...

Hackers have attempted to exploit a zero–day flaw in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy five million times, sometimes successfully. The news comes from WordPress security–focused company Wordfence, ...

WordPress websites have databases which contain all of the posts, comments and links. Back up the database to prevent data loss. Databases can be backed up manually or automatically. The WordPress ...

Why it matters: WordPress plugin developer, iThemes, alerted users to a vulnerability related to their BackupBuddy extension earlier this week. The security hole leaves plugin users susceptible to ...