Northon Torga

11 posts

Northon Torga is Sucuri's Security Analyst who joined the company in 2016. Northon's main responsibilities include working on malware cleanup software, the automation robot, supporting Sucuri Labs and Docs, and more. His professional experience covers 13 years in servers and cybersecurity. When Northon isn't developing software or blog posting, you might find him discussing sci-fi topics on Facebook groups or studying physics. Connect with him on LinkedIn or on his personal website.

Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API

Website Security

A Quick Glance at Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Headers

Northon Torga
October 21, 2020

Thanks to the rapid growth of JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, Vue, and React, CORS has become a popular word in the developer’s vocabulary. When…

Let’s Encrypt Revokes 3 Million Certificates Due to CAA Bug

Northon Torga
March 4, 2020

Imagine receiving a TLS warning on your browser every time you visit your website for 60 days straight. Definitely not an ideal situation and you…

Top 10 Website Hardening Tips

Northon Torga
October 14, 2019

Website hardening means adding layers of protection to reduce the risk of website attacks, a process known as “defense in depth.” Here are our top…

DDoS Targeting WordPress Search

Northon Torga
April 8, 2019

Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search…

Googlebot or a DDoS Attack?

Northon Torga
February 12, 2019

A bot is a software application that uses automation to run scripts on the internet. Also called crawlers or spiders, these guys take on the…

Optimize Setup to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks

Northon Torga
January 24, 2019

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can disrupt website traffic and impact any business. To help website owners and webmasters improve their website resilience to DDoS attacks,…

How to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part III – WAF

Northon Torga
January 8, 2019

In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase its resilience to DDoS attacks. In…

Real-Time Fine-Tuning of the WAF via API

Northon Torga
November 14, 2018

Though the Sucuri Firewall is simple to set up and protects your website immediately, it’s possible to have granular control of the WAF by using…

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part II – Caching

Northon Torga
August 9, 2018

In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase your website’s resilience to DDoS attacks.…

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I

Northon Torga
June 12, 2018

Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are unforgiving. They test the limits of your web server and application resources by…

Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools

Northon Torga
March 28, 2017

Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you…