On 9 February, Google announced that their Chrome browser will issue large warnings from July 2018 if people want to visit websites that are not secured with an SSL certificate.
New Brute Force attacks on WordPress sites
On December 18, security companies reported a serious global Brute Force attack that specifically targeted WordPress websites. This was one of the biggest attacks to date with a peak of more than 14 million Brute Force attacks per minute. It attempts to gain access to WordPress websites with large amounts of user / password combination…