Website Security News
This morning Dreamhost released an email to a number of clients notifying them that a database was being moved to a new server. If you’re one of our clients and you receive Website Disabled warnings its likely being generated from this temporary outage. Please allow…
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We are seeing a large number of vBulletin/vBSEO websites getting compromised lately and we keep getting requests for info as to what’s going on.
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Here is a quick little write up on how to to deal with one, of many variations, of the Blackhole Exploit. The Infection If you scan your site using Sucuri…
If you like the Twilight series, be careful if you plan to do any “research” on it, or if you plan to visit the site of the series author (Stephenie…
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We love to get questions from you, our readers, in our Ask Sucuri series. If you have any questions about website malware, blacklisting, or security in general, send us an…
Read More about ASK Sucuri: What should I do if my email is in the Yahoo Leak?
We recently heard that a massive leak of Yahoo passwords has been floating on the interwebs for a few days. According to Ars Technica, the dump is from Yahoo Voice…
Read More about Analysis of Yahoo Voice Password Leak – 453,441 Passwords Exposed
A few days ago, Magento 1.7.0.2 was released to fix a very serious security vulnerability that allows attackers to read any file on the web server where the Zend XMLRPC…
Read More about Magento Security Update (1.7.0.2) – Zend_XmlRpc Vulnerability
We are seeing a large and distributed malware network comprised of thousands of infected websites that is growing very quickly. We call it “Stats.php” because all of the infected websites…
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Google recently put out a post talking to the past 5 years offering the Safe Browsing program and summarized in a post titled: Google Safe Browsing Program 5 Years Old…
Read More about Google Blacklist Warning: Something’s Not Right Here!
Malware authors (AKA the criminals or the bad guys), use many advanced techniques to hide their activities. From encoding, to encrypting, to auto-generated random domains, conditional redirections and many other…