Dying in a Fire of Updates? WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8 Are Here.

WordPress 5.6 will be released on December 8, and PHP 8 is already available. WordPress 5.6 has beta support for PHP 8. Are you ready to update? Don't click that update button before you see what changes are in store for your WordPress sites with the Wordfence Live team. Join us December 8 at 12 noon eastern, 9 am pacific, 5 pm GMT. We'll also have another swag giveaway for anyone who joins us live.
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Relevant blog posts:
https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/12/wordpress-5-6-introduces-a-new-risk-to-your-site-what-to-do/

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2020/11/php-8-what-wordpress-users-need-to-know/
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
5:00 Chloe's 48 hour security exam
7:40 How to get started with security certifications
11:09 WordPress 5.6 Application passwords
12:30 What can application passwords be used for
13:16 Social engineering with application passwords
16:30 Wordfence added application password setting in 7.4.14
17:43 ManageWP and application passwords
18:05 What to do if you're using application passwords
19:40 Possible use cases for application passwords
21:52 Swag question
24:42 jQuery updates
28:38 What is jQuery?
30:00 How can you tell if your site is affected by this?
30:47 Google Lighthouse jQuery alert
31:39 Tools to check code for jQuery version compatibility?
35:20 Major version auto-updates for new sites
37:24 Site health changes are minor
38:00 What basics from Security+ supports learning the most for WordPress security?
39:40 Changes in Gutenberg.
40:50 The new theme! Twenty Twenty-One
42:30 PHP 8 and WordPress
43:05 What's new in PHP 8
45:00 When will WordPress require PHP 7.*?
46:50 Should we updated to PHP 8?
48:10 On a brand new site with minimal plugins and WordPress 5.6 can I use PHP 8?
49:02 PHP JIT Improvements
50:30 Are most plugins not compatible with PHP 8?
51:57 Swag winners
53:00 Application passwords in the long run will be a good thing

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