Sogou: A Not So Clever Chinese Spider
Sogou is a Chinese spider collecting data for their search engine, or something. We have tried to block Sogou using robots.txt without any success. User-agent: Sogou web spiderDisallow: / User-agent:…
Sogou is a Chinese spider collecting data for their search engine, or something. We have tried to block Sogou using robots.txt without any success. User-agent: Sogou web spiderDisallow: / User-agent:…
This is an important stability update, that fixes some of the last remaining issues. You can check this release live HERE, running PHP 7.4.33 and our McFly v1.7.0 Theme. Project…
A few weeks ago, a new bot (to us) started visiting our site. The IPs are from Amazon Cloud (AWS), located in the Ashburn, Virginia (US), and the only identifying…
As from this afternoon, we are experiencing a coordinated attack, from various lot of IPs all over the world. Not a very fast and clever attack, i have seen much…
There are several firewall and security plugins for WordPress. For me, the best choices are Wordfence, The Shield, and Ninja Firewall. The order is random, please don’t get me wrong…
PHP and WordPress versions are evolving rapidly, and we must adapt quickly. PHP 8.1 was officially released in November 2021, almost two years ago. PHP 8.1 will receive active support…