WordPress Finally Gets the Security Features a Third of the Internet Deserves

' The WordPress content management system (CMS) is set to receive an
assortment of new security features today that will finally add the
protection level that many of its users have desired for years. From a
report:

These features are expected to land with the official release of
WordPress 5.2, expected for later today. Included are support for
cryptographically-signed updates, support for a modern cryptography
library, a Site Health section in the admin panel backend, and a
feature that will act as a White-Screen-of-Death (WSOD) protection --
letting site admins access their backend in the case of catastrophic
PHP errors. With WordPress being installed on around 33.8 percent of
all internet sites, these features are set to put some fears at ease
in regards to some attack vectors. Probably the biggest and the most
important of today's new security features is WordPress' offline
digital signatures system. Starting with WordPress 5.2, the WordPress
team will digitally sign its update packages with the Ed25519
public-key signature system so that a local installation will be able
to verify the update package's authenticity before applying it to a
local site.'

-- source: https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/05/07/1930208

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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