Apocalypse Meow vs Beagle Security – WP Security, Advanced Penetration Testing

Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like: Brute-force login-in protection; Customizable password strength requirements; XML-RPC access controls; Account access alerts; Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans); User enumeration prevention; Registration SPAM protection; Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult; Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers; Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information. Knowledge is power! Requirements Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires: WordPress 4.4+. PHP 7.4 or later. PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre. CREATE and DROP MySQL grants. Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported). Please note: it is not safe to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its End of Life. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂 Log Monitoring Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like Fail2Ban or OSSEC to ban users via the firewall. Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to wp-login.php. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools. If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the die() option, requests for ?author=X will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked. Privacy Policy When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors. This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties. Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days. Please note: Apocalypse Meow DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)

SECURE YOUR WEBSITE FROM THE LATEST VULNERABILITIES WITH THE EASY TO USE WEBSITE PENETRATION TESTING TOOL Beagle Security is a web application penetration testing tool that helps you to identify vulnerabilities on your WordPress website before hackers exploit them. 35% of the web is built on WordPress and it’s a favorite target for hackers. Vulnerabilities in the WordPress core, plugins, and themes can all leave your website prone to a cyber attack leading to loss of critical data and financial losses. That is why you need to proactively tackle WordPress website security and make sure you’re secure from common WordPress security vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, file inclusion exploits, directory traversal, and many more. With Beagle Security, you can find complex attack vectors WordPress vulnerability scanners fail to detect. Vulnerability scanners give you quick scan results, but they are not designed to identify modern security threats. By leveraging an AI-powered core, Beagle Security does in-depth penetration tests on your website and discovers all the loopholes in it. With evidence-based vulnerability reporting, you get insights into the occurrence of each vulnerability on your website and actionable recommendations on how to fix the discovered security issues and secure your website. Beagle Security’s free plugin helps you to: Connect securely to your Beagle Security account Complete domain verification with just a button’s click Start/stop tests from your WP admin console See the progress of running tests View test results with total vulnerabilities in your website Understand the classification of vulnerabilities according to the severity Know the security score of your website WHY CHOOSE BEAGLE SECURITY Compliant with global security standards like OWASP and SANS Set up in less than 5 minutes- no coding required Constantly updated vulnerability database with latest threats and zero-day vulnerabilities AI-powered core for human-like decision making Lowest false positives Authenticated testing for complex websites with login module Ensure security compliance with continuous vulnerability assessments GETTING STARTED You’ll need to have an account on Beagle Security to use this plugin. You can sign up here. Installing the plugin is easy and all you need is to add the access token and application token from your Beagle Security account to finish the setup.