Month: July 2024

Security, Tutorials, WordPress

Rotating WordPress salts as incident response: the step everyone skips

Close-up of a metal combination lock with rotating numeric dials — visual metaphor for rotating WordPress salts to a new secret combination (photo: Felix Moeller / Pexels)

You’ve cleaned the malware files, deleted the backdoor admin accounts, rotated everyone’s password. The site is fine, you’re fine. Three weeks later someone logs in with a session cookie they grabbed during the compromise window and creates a fresh admin …