Website Security News
If your computer is infected, malware can spread to your website through text editors and FTP clients. Weak passwords are also vulnerable to brute force attacks, and using unsecured networks to access the internet can leave you exposed to hackers. As a website owner, you…
During regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall (WAF), we discovered a SQL Injection vulnerability affecting Joomla! 3.7 – CVE-2017-8917. The vulnerability is easy to exploit and doesn’t require a privileged account…
Website security is a continuous process. It’s not something that should be turned on when the time is right; rather integrated into the full scope of how you deploy a…
Read More about Website Availability and Security When Migrating Hosts
Cookies are stored in the user’s browser to track behavior on a specific website. They also keep a user logged in during the active browsing session. Without cookies a user…
Read More about Fake WordPrssAPI Stealing Cookies and Hijacking Sessions
Over the course of the last year, our teams have been getting creative and making a collaborative effort to improve the experience of our customer dashboard. Website security is multifaceted…
Read More about Introducing the New Sucuri Customer Dashboard
This month, our Malware Research and Incident Response teams wrote about several malware techniques that attempt to evade detection by focusing on small changes that website owners might miss. Examples…
If you are a customer of ours, you may have noticed the recent updates we’ve made to our dashboard. These changes enhance your ability to manage the Sucuri Firewall and…
The Sucuri Firewall dashboard provides a rich set of API functions that can be used to control your firewall settings remotely. In addition, there is an API function to download…
If you own a website and collaborate with others, the principle of least privilege should never be questioned. It is a computer science principle which has applications and benefits to…
Read More about Ask Sucuri: What is the Principle of Least Privilege?
Some website hacks aim to make some political statements. Defacements are well known for this. Some infections redirect visitors to scam sites that push (usually counterfeit) goods or (often illegal)…
Read More about Website Malware: Unwanted Exit to YourBrexit
We are happy to share some big changes we have pushed live for our Website Monitoring platform. If you’re not familiar with our monitoring, it’s a cloud-based compromise detection system…
