Elementor Lays Off 15% of Workforce, Citing Rising Inflation and Impending Recession

With inflation rising and the unemployment rate falling, economic forecasters are predicting an impending recession in 2023. A few major WordPress companies are tightening their belts ahead of what many believe will be an unavoidable economic downturn. Elementor announced that it is laying off 60 employees, 15% of its workforce, in a tightly controlled release of information to Globes, an …

The Ultimate Guide To Securing Your WordPress Login With Biometric Authentication – For Free!

Defender had already implemented Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) in WordPress for hardened security… now we’ve added Biometrics, too! It has become increasingly apparent that relying strictly on usernames and passwords for logins no longer offers the highest levels of security. WPMU DEV’s solution to addressing this is through the use of the WebAuthn standard, which bypasses vulnerabilities by providing a protocol …

WordPress.org Forces Security Update for Critical Ninja Forms Vulnerability

Late last week, Ninja Forms users received a forced security update from WordPress.org for a critical PHP Object Injection vulnerability. This particular vulnerability can be exploited remotely without any authentication. It was publicly disclosed last week and patched in the latest version, 3.6.11. Patches were also backported to versions 3.0.34.2, 3.1.10, 3.2.28, 3.3.21.4, 3.4.34.2, and 3.5.8.4. Wordfence noticed a back-ported …