CSRF in a nutshell
This article adroitly describes CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) attacks. In short, it answers the question why nonces are so important for website security.
Bookmarks for your dashboard
If you are constantly editing posts or subpages, then you will certainly appreciate this plugin. It adds buttons to the interface of posts/subpages, which allow you to flag it as a bookmark, which will appear later when opening the Posts/Pages section, so finding and editing your content is just that little bit easier.
Jetpack 2.9 released
On the last Wednesday Jetpack 2.9 was published, and brought with it support for WordPress Multisite and improved security, as well as a Related Post module that provides suggestions for additional content to keep users on your site whilst keeping the impact on server resources at a minimum.
PrettyPress – improved posts editor
PrettyPress is a plugin that allows you to make the WordPress post editor to similar to the Ghost editor. In addition to a preview of the post on the page in the real time, it also offers support for Markdown syntax.