While doing research for some recent posts, we ran into what we found to be an odd situation, which highlights that the security being provided by enterprise WordPress web hosting can be lacking despite the high price of the service.
In announcing an investment that Automattic made in web host GridPane, GridPane highlighted one of their clients: [Read more]
Recently, we have been seeing a fair amount of instances of people trying to be security conscious with their WordPress websites who have been misled by misinformation coming from a newer WordPress security provider named Snicco. The vector for them coming across Snicco has repeatedly been a WordPress focused web host named GridPane. Here was someone citing GridPane providing legitimacy to Snicco (and Automattic in turn providing them legitimacy):
However, the thoroughness of Snicco’s posts overall and their demonstrated expertise on the issue (not to mention their close partnership with the Automattic-backed enterprise-level WordPress hosting platform, GridPane) lends them a lot of legitimacy. [Read more]
Last month we noted that a couple of WordPress news outlets had repeated what appear to be clearly false claims made by one of WordPress security provider Patchstack. It should go without saying that a security company that isn’t honest is a big deal. We have run across a further claim from Patchstack that disputes the previous claim they made, while still appearing to be false.
On November 5, the WP Tavern ran a story by Justin Tadlock that included this claim about the number of vulnerabilities in Patchstack’s database for this year: [Read more]