WordPress Security Definitions
Comprehensive glossary of WordPress security terms, concepts, and definitions to help you understand and protect your site.
Firewall
10 termsNetwork security fundamentals including the OSI model, WAF, TCP/IP, HTTP, ICMP, DoS attacks, IP spoofing, and routing concepts.
Bots
8 termsBot-related definitions covering botnets, web crawlers, data scraping, click fraud, spam bots, and bot traffic management.
Security
15 termsCore security concepts including ransomware, social engineering, data breaches, zero-day exploits, DNS hijacking, and API security.
WordPress
10 termsWordPress-specific terminology covering plugins, themes, hooks, wp-config, REST API, and the WordPress ecosystem.
Infrastructure
10 termsNetwork and server infrastructure terms including SSL/TLS, DNS, CDN, WAF, firewalls, and the OSI model.
Threats
10 termsCyber threat definitions covering malware, phishing, botnets, DDoS attacks, ransomware, and social engineering.
What is a DDoS Attack (Distributed Denial of Service)?
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a cyberattack in which multiple compromised systems flood a target server, service, or network with overwhelming traffic, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users.
What is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack?
A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a cyberattack that aims to make a computer, server, or network resource unavailable to legitimate users by overwhelming it with a flood of malicious traffic or exploiting vulnerabilities.
What is blackhole routing?
Blackhole routing is a network defence technique where traffic destined for a specific IP address or range is silently dropped by routing it to a null interface, commonly used as an emergency response to DDoS attacks.