Northon Torga

About Northon Torga

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.

October 21, 2020Northon Torga

A Quick Glance at Cross-Origin Resource Sharing Security Headers

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 requesting information from an external source such as an API (a pretty common practice for client-side JavaScript code), the origin…

March 4, 2020Northon Torga

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

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 would certainly want to avoid…

October 14, 2019Northon Torga

Top 10 Website Hardening Tips

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 10 virtual hardening principles: 1…

April 8, 2019Northon Torga

DDoS Targeting WordPress Search

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 traffic that Google does? Search…

February 12, 2019Northon Torga

Googlebot or a DDoS Attack?

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 simple yet repetitive tasks we…

January 24, 2019Northon Torga

Optimize Setup to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks

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, we have put together a…

January 8, 2019Northon Torga

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

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 the second post, we focused…

November 14, 2018Northon Torga

Real-Time Fine-Tuning of the WAF via API

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 an API. For instance, there’s…

August 9, 2018Northon Torga

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

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. Today, we are going to…

June 12, 2018Northon Torga

How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I

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 sending spikes of fake traffic…

March 28, 2017Northon Torga

Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools

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 less than a second this…