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Plugin Security Scorecard Grade for MalCare

Checked on November 7, 2024
F

See issues causing the plugin to get less than A+ grade

18 Jan 2024

Malcare’s Review of Wordfence Recommends Malcare Instead Without Disclosing They Make It

Those looking for useful security advice for WordPress websites are often running across biased information, where the bias isn’t disclosed. While looking for some information for a post we were writing, we ran across what was claimed to be a review of the Wordfence Security plugin. It was from a competitor, Malcare. That was never disclosed in the review. You only have to get to the fourth paragraph before they are recommending Malcare instead already:

WordFence’s free version is a really good security plugin for website owners with zero budget for security. However, there are a bunch of downsides, including some security lacuna. I strongly recommend MalCare, which is far more reliable and effective at blocking threats and protecting your site against malware. [Read more]

3 Oct 2023

Malcare Marketing Highlights Common False Claims Made About WordPress Firewall Solutions

Last week we looked at one way a WordPress security named MalCare markets their service with false claims. In that case, it was through made up stats of their service, which led them, when you added things up, to claim that a fifth of their customers are getting hacked every year. That is despite claiming to have a “deeply integrated, real-time WordPress Firewall to block the most sophisticated attacks”. The marketing for that firewall is filled with common false claims you run across over and over from less than honest security providers marketing firewall solutions for WordPress.

Below we do quick breakdowns of why some of those claims are false. Understanding that can help to cut through the BS to find solutions that really work. [Read more]

22 Dec 2021

Our Firewall Plugin Provides What Malcare Claims Isn’t Available in a WordPress Security Plugin

Malcare is like a lot of providers in the WordPress security space, they make extraordinary claims that don’t really make a lot of sense if you have a basic grasp of security. Either the people behind those providers don’t understand what they are doing (which seems possible) or they are assuming that they can get away with misleading people (which they unfortunately can).

Our most recent instance of running across Malcare came from monitoring we do to keep track of vulnerabilities being exploited in WordPress plugins, which also flags other mentions of security issues. [Read more]