Daniel Cid

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Daniel B. Cid is Founder of Sucuri and the VP of Engineering for the GoDaddy Security Products group. He is also the founder of OSSEC and CleanBrowsing. You can find more about Daniel on his site dcid.me or on Twitter: @danielcid

Sucuri’s 10th Anniversary

Daniel Cid
April 24, 2019

It feels like yesterday, but it has been 10 years since the domain sucuri.net was registered. Happy 10th Birthday, Sucuri! For us, 2009 marks the…

Product Update: Sucuri Firewall in Singapore and Amsterdam

Daniel Cid
October 15, 2018

Over three years ago, we transitioned the Sucuri Firewall (WAF) away from the cloud and expanded it to run on top of our own Anycast…

Sucuri Enhances Security by Disabling TLS Version 1.0 and 1.1

Daniel Cid
June 29, 2018

Protecting our users’ information and privacy is extremely important to us. As a cloud-based security service, we are fully committed to complying with the PCI…

Sucuri Updates

Introducing the New Sucuri Customer Dashboard

Daniel Cid
May 4, 2017

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…

RCE Attempts Against the Latest WordPress REST API Vulnerability

Daniel Cid
February 9, 2017

We are starting to see remote command execution (RCE) attempts trying to exploit the latest WordPress REST API Vulnerability. These RCE attempts started today after…

WordPress REST API Vulnerability Abused in Defacement Campaigns

Daniel Cid
February 6, 2017

WordPress 4.7.2 was released two weeks ago, including a fix for a severe vulnerability in the WordPress REST API. We have been monitoring our WAF…

WordPress Performance Optimization Guide

Daniel Cid
January 19, 2017

Since launching our website performance testing tool we have been getting a lot of questions about how to improve the speed and performance of WordPress…

Hacked Website Report – 2016/Q3

Daniel Cid
January 4, 2017

Today we are proud to release our quarterly Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q3. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri…

Ask Sucuri: How to Stop Brute Force Attacks?

Daniel Cid
December 14, 2016

Ask Sucuri: My site is under a brute force attack. What can I do? How can we solve this password guessing problem known as brute…

Joomla Exploits in the Wild Against CVE-2016-8870 and CVE-2016-8869

Daniel Cid
October 28, 2016

Exactly 3 days ago, the Joomla team issued a patch for a high-severity vulnerability that allows remote users to create accounts and increase their privileges…

Joomla Account Creation Vulnerability

Daniel Cid
October 25, 2016

The Joomla team released a patch for a serious security vulnerability affecting all Joomla versions from 3.4.4 and up. If you’re using one of these…