Fortress’s v1.0.0 is purely symbolic at this point. Plenty of sites are running it in production without a hitch, and frankly, I’d bet a decent amount of money that Fortress is already among the most reliable and heavily tested software in the WordPress ecosystem. That said, we’ve released two of the remaining big milestones that,…

Recent research from WeWatchYourWebsite based on data from millions of WordPress sites has shown that 67% of all WordPress compromises are caused by either session cookie hijacking or stolen credentials. Additionally, plugin vulnerabilities related to privilege-escalation are consistently among the most mass-exploited: Regardless of how an admin account is compromised, for the vast majority of…

This past month we’ve been busy. Not with flashy features but with rigorous under-the-hood improvements. Reliability isn’t just a phrase we sprinkle on marketing pages; it’s the essence of how we design software at Snicco. Before we wrote a single line of code for Fortress, we dedicated four months to building a robust, containerized testing…