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Wordfence   – This plugin does the job of a handful of plugins, all at once. It blocks brute force attacks (when unknown users try to guess your login credentials), identifies malicious traffic and blocks them from entering your site, blocks visitors from stealing your content, allows you to throttle or block excessive pageview activity from visitors,  allows you to block fake search engine bots disguising themselves as Google, and so much more. Heartbeat Control  – If you leave your WordPress admin active for long periods of time (while writing or editing a post) repeated POST requests can cause high resource usage. To avoid this, the WordPress “heartbeat” can be modified or even disabled to lower your server resource usage. W3 Total Cache  – Caching is a great way to limit your resource usage and pretty much every web host will recommend you install a caching plugin if you’re running a WordPress site. This plugin can greatly im...

Crunchyroll.com was taken offline this morning due to a hack that caused visitors to be prompted to download a desktop version of their software. This software, though, was not as it seemed because it also included malware that was installed along with it. When the Crunchyroll staff in Germany woke up this morning they were greeted with news that something was not quite right with the site. Due to this they started issuing alerts telling visitors to stay away from the site for the time being. And for our English-speaking audience Please DO NOT access our website at the current time. We are aware of the issues and are working on it — Crunchyroll.de (@Crunchyroll_de)  November 4, 2017 While the hack was ongoing, visitors were greeted with a prompt to download and try a new desktop application. This desktop application was not one offered by the site themselves, but one being offered by the hackers in order to distribute malware. Crunchyroll.com During the Hack Source:...