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Recently, we have been seeing a fair amount of instances of people trying to be security conscious with their WordPress websites who have been misled by misinformation coming from a newer WordPress security provider named Snicco. The vector for them coming across Snicco has repeatedly been a WordPress focused web host named GridPane. Here was someone citing GridPane providing legitimacy to Snicco (and Automattic in turn providing them legitimacy):
However, the thoroughness of Snicco’s posts overall and their demonstrated expertise on the issue (not to mention their close partnership with the Automattic-backed enterprise-level WordPress hosting platform, GridPane) lends them a lot of legitimacy. [Read more]