He Found a WordPress Supply Chain Attack by Accident

About this episode

Austin Ginder shares how he discovered WordPress plugin supply chain attacks and launched WP Beacon.

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute Today’s episode features a segment from Eric’s interview with Anchor Hosting’s Austin Ginder. Austin shared the story of how he discovered a series of WordPress plugin supply chain attacks and how it led him to launch WP Beacon, a new security resource to discover and track these incidents. You can catch the entire interview over on our WP Minute+ channel. Visit thewpminute.com for all the details: https://thewpminute.com/inside-the-surge-of-wordpress-supply-chain-attacks/ Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe ★ Support this podcast ★

People in this episode

Hosts: Matt Report, Matt Medeiros

Guest: Austin Ginder

Topics covered

• WordPress
• supply chain attacks
• security
• podcast
• technology

Keywords

• WordPress
• supply chain attack
• security resource
• WP Beacon
• Anchor Hosting

Sponsors

Pressable

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: WP Beacon, Anchor Hosting, WP Minute+, The WP Minute

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