The most widely used content management system on the Web relies heavily on plug-ins and add-on software — and that requires rigorous security measures at every level.  What’s the best way to secure a WordPress website? The answer varies depending on whether you’re talking about sites hosted on WordPress.com (the hosting provider) or those running …

COMMENTARY  While distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and zero-day threats are nothing new in cybersecurity, they’re still happening regularly for a simple reason: They work. In early November 2023, OpenAI blamed a DDoS attack for intermittent ChatGPT issues, and one of the largest known denial-of-service attacks hit major internet companies in October. The same group of …

“Web cache” refers to any technology that fronts an origin web server and temporarily stores frequently accessed content so that subsequent requests for the same content can be served efficiently. Be they centralized caching proxies deployed on-premises at an enterprise or content delivery networks (CDNs) with massively distributed caching edge servers, caches have become critical …