Alexa top sites – Blacklist for January/2011
David Dede Every month we analyze Alexa’s TOP 1 million site ranking and correlate that data with Google’s blacklist. Our goal is to get an overall view…
Month: February 2011
13 posts
The attack from the .cc’s domains
Over the last few days we’ve continued to see a large increase in the number of sites hacked and infected with a malicious iframe from…
Hilary Kneber Strikes Again – welcometotheglobalisnet
It seems that after a few months quiet, the “Hilary Kneber” group is back at it again. Their latest approach is very typical of Hilary…
UCalgary web sites compromised with spam
We were cleaning up a compromised site today (with the unfamous pharma hack), when we saw multiple spam links in the hacked site pointing to…
Thailand official foreign affairs / embassy web sites hacked
The Royal Thai (Thailand’s) consulate and embassy web sites (part of their foreign affairs ministry) are currently hacked and infected with a lot of spam…
Cleaning up an infected website – Part I: WordPress and the Pharma Hack
New release! On 11/03/2017 everything you need to know on how to secure your WP site came out and it includes best practices and a…
Large Blackhat SEO SPAM Campaign Targeting Joomla Sites
We are seeing a large number Joomla sites hacked and being used in a blackhat SEO SPAM campaign consisting of thousands of infected web sites.…
Weekly Malware Update – 2010/Feb/11
Weekly malware update. You can track all updates by following our malware_updates category. *If your site has been affected with any of these issues, contact…
Something is wrong at WordPress.com / CNN.com
Update: The problem is now fixed, seems to be caused by a redirection error. Many of the (CNN) VIP sites at WordPress.com are redirecting to:…
WordPress 3.0.5 is available (with security fixes)
If you use WordPress, we recommend updating to the latest version (3.0.5) as soon as possible, specially if you have multiple users with authoring/contributing roles.…
IPv6 is not here (yet). In fact, it is still very far
There is news that because the final IPv4 blocks have been allocated, that IPv6 is supposely “here” now. The news came from APNIC: APNIC received…