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Keeping your WordPress website secure is something every WordPress website owner worries about. And for good reason: if your site is hacked or goes down, you could lose business and customers, and it can take a long time and a lot of expense to get your site back online and back to the way it was. Before we get started, we want to make sure we’ve covered the most important things. How do you go about keeping your WordPress website secure? There are a few things to keep in mind in order to keep your WordPress website safe. It is important to keep your plugins, themes, and installation updated. 3. Only buy plugins and themes from reputable sources. If you download free themes and plugins, use the official WordPress.org directories. If you have the ability, it is always better to keep things on a development server and only push to the production server once everything is tested. It is also a good idea to use a plugin like Wordfence. It will scan your WordPress site for malware, blacklist...

New Linux kernel bug lets you get root on most modern distros. This Linux kernel's filesystem security vulnerability can enable any user to grab root privileges. Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel. Linux kernel security vulnerability affects all versions of Linux. This security flaw was introduced in April 2015 and is present in all systemd versions released since then (s ystemd is a system and service manager that is designed specifically for Linux kernel). The good news is that while this problem is alive and nasty in any system running the Linux kernel 3.16 through 5.13.x before 5.13.4, patches are available. So, if you've been complacent and not updating your Linux computers, it's time to start typing in patching commands.