Improve Domain Name Security, Lessons Learned
David Dede I was very glad to interested to read this article by http://syedaqeel.com/ where he talks about a recent domain name hijacking that he suffered and…
New FSF web site
The web site for the Free Software Foundation has been completely redesigned. It is looking great now with a Jquery carousel and a web 2.0…
Password security without a password manager
Daniel from http://www.dailyblogtips.com published an article with some of his ideas on how to create passwords for multiple sites. The idea is to create an…
We just reached 3,000 sites being monitored
I was very glad to find out today that we reached 3,000 sites being monitored by http://sucuri.net. They are all being checked frequently for DNS,…
Who has better passwords? Men or Women?
A few days ago Tonu Samuel published the distribution of passwords between men and women for a site with more than 800,000 users. Who do…
apache.org hacked?
Apache.org was down for a while this morning and shortly after they released a note about a compromise: This is a short overview of what…
servage.net mass defaced again
It seems that http://www.servage.net/ has been mass defaced again. It is not the first time I hear about them, but it seems they get hacked…
WordPress <= 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password
How to annoy a wordpress admin? By changing his password without confirmation… WordPress get_row($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users WHEREuser_activation_key = %s”, $key)); if ( empty( $user…
The curiosity killed the cat
During the last few months we have been releasing numerous free online tools at Sucuri. One to scan web sites for security issues, another one…
Twitter is down, productivity is up
Twitter has been down for more than one hour today and I suddenly noticed an increased productivity from my peers… any correlation? Maybe that’s related…
Cisco leaking private IP addresses via DNS
One of the first things I learned while setting up my DNS servers was to never leak internal IP addresses to the outside world. Well,…