Thailand official foreign affairs / embassy web sites hacked
David Dede 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…
Weekly malware update – 2010/Jan/31
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…
Backdoor: No malware on this code, you can check it by yourself
We were cleaning up an infected web site a few days ago and it had multiple backdoors. They all started like that: <?php // ketek90@gmail.com…
SourceForge.net servers compromised
If you have an account on SourceForge, or host any project in there, we recommend that change your password ASAP (especially if you re-use it…
What to Do When Your Site Gets Blacklisted
Most site owners only start to think about security when their site gets hacked (infected with malware) and consequently blacklisted by Google with a malware…