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David Dede

About David Dede

David is a Security Researcher at Sucuri. He spends most of his time dissecting vulnerabilities and security issues. You won't find him on Twitter because he is paranoid about privacy.

May 6, 2015David Dede

JetPack and TwentyFifteen Vulnerable to DOM-based XSS

Any WordPress Plugin or theme that leverages the genericons package is vulnerable to a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to an insecure file included with genericons. So far, the JetPack plugin (reported to have over 1 million active installs) and the TwentyFifteen theme (installed…

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December 30, 2014David Dede

WP Symposium – Zero Day Vulnerability Dangers

Our friends at SpiderLabs released a blog post today talking about the latest WP Symposium file upload vulnerability, and the attacks they have been seeing in the wild. This specific…

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September 18, 2014David Dede

WordFence WordPress Security Plugin Pushes a Security Update

If you are one of the many users of the WordPress Security Plugin, WordFence, we highly encourage you to update. They recently pushed out a security update that could be…

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August 15, 2014David Dede

Thoughts on WordPress Security and Vulnerabilities

As avid readers of this blog know, we’ve discovered or written about multiple vulnerabilities within the WordPress ecosystem over the last couple of weeks specifically relating to popular plugins. MailPoet…

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August 6, 2014David Dede

WordPress and Drupal Core Denial Of Service Vulnerability – Moderately Critical

Both WordPress and Drupal are affected by a DoS (denial of service) vulnerability on the PHP XML parser used by their XMLRPC implementations. The issue lies in the XML entity…

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Yoast and Sucuri

August 4, 2014David Dede

Yoast and Sucuri Partner to Create a Safer Web

We’re very excited to finally talk about a partnership that’s been in the works for a few months and in light of the serious nature of the Security in the…

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July 8, 2014David Dede

Simplifying the Language of Website Security

A couple of weeks ago, the Sucuri team was at HostingCon. We rubbed elbows with the people who bring your websites to the world and spoke at length with them…

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June 17, 2014David Dede

Is My Website Hacked? If You Have to Ask, Then, “Yes.”

The problem with phishing, and therefore the reason so many people have trouble with it, is that the code is fairly benign and can be very difficult to spot. This…

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June 5, 2014David Dede

Take Back Your Internet – Demand a Safer Web

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve written about malicious redirects pushing users to porn sites, ever more complicated phishing scams being carried out by multiple compromised websites on a…

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May 22, 2014David Dede

Sucuri CloudProxy – Website Firewall Enhancements

When LA’s DA says that, “73% of our local businesses appear to have been hacked,” it begins to illustrate the importance website protection will play in the future of business,…

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May 6, 2014David Dede

Does Sucuri Work With My Host? Yes, Yes We Do.

We’ve been scanning and removing malware from websites for years and in this time frame we have seen the website security domain grow by leaps and bounds. Over the same…

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