Patchstack Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Random files and directories in a few (but not all) WordPress installs on my server

  Start off by checking your plugins against somewhere like https://patchstack.com/ (or even using their automated service). Source: over 1 year ago

• [Help] - How to mantain, backup and keep safe my site?

  Security is actually very simple, realize that 99% of security issues with wordpress are due to plugins. So what you want to do is install good ones and keep them up to date, you can also install something like https://patchstack.com/ to warn you if a plugin you have installed has a vulnerability. Other than this, use a strong password and change the admin user and use a 2FA plugin with google authenticator. You... Source: over 1 year ago

• Logged In For the First Time in Weeks, 500+ Spam Posts Created. What happened??? How can I prevent this from happening in the future? Is my account compromised or are these spammers posting these through some kind of back door method? Sorry, I'm new to this!

  If only people understood this, a free solution like patchstack.com coupled with good plugin hygience, strong passwords and 2FA. And you're 99.98% safe. Source: over 1 year ago

• What causes malware on my wordpress site?

  You can connect your sites with Patchstack for free to be notified when some new vulnerability is found in plugin/theme/wordpress version that you use. You can also check the vulnerability database manually here: https://patchstack.com/database/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Which security plugin is the best?

  People have to understand that 98% of wordpress security issues are due to plugin vulnerabilities, if you monitor for plugin vulnerabilities in the plugins you use, maybe using a something free like patchstack.com and then use a free firewall plugin like BBQ firewall or Cloudflare + Using 2-FA with a password manager, changing the login URL to avoid bots all together. Source: almost 2 years ago

• A New Study Reveals Major WordPress Security Issues

  I scrolled through this "study" and I'm not very impressed. For one, patchstack.com is a product for "scanning your site for security vulnerabilities". Therefore anything they write about vulnerabilities of WordPress is immediate suspected to be biased towards "omg we found so many problems, you should buy our product to protect yourself!". Source: about 2 years ago