Ask Sucuri: Differentiate Between Security Firewalls
Tony Perez Question: How should a website owner differentiate between firewalls? What do they do? The term “firewall” is not new. It is common terminology in the…
Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
We are no strangers to Blackhat SEO techniques, we’ve actually spent a great deal of time working and sharing various bits of information related to…
Your Website’s Been Hacked But No Signs of Infection
Imagine for a moment you suspect that your website has been hacked. Something is off, but you feel as if you are missing what that…
Website Security: How Do Websites Get Hacked?
In 2014, the total number of websites on the internet reached 1 billion. Today it’s hovering somewhere in the neighborhood of 944 million due to…
The Impacts of a Hacked Website
Today, with the proliferation of open-source technologies like WordPress, Joomla and other Content Management Systems (CMS) people around the world are able to quickly establish…
Why Websites Get Hacked
I spend a good amount of time engaging with website owners across a broad spectrum of businesses. Interestingly enough, unless I’m talking large enterprise, there…
SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites
This Sunday has started with a bang. Google has blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru: Our analysis is showing impacts…
The WordPress Security Plugin Ecosystem
As a child, did you ever play that game where you sit in a circle and one person is responsible for whispering something into one…
My WordPress Website Was Hacked
Before you freak out, allow me to clarify. It was one of several honeypots we have running. The honeypots are spread across the most commonly…
Backups – The Forgotten Website Security Pillar
I travel a lot (might actually be an understatement these days), but the travel always revolves around a couple of common threads – website security…
Responsible Disclosure – Sucuri Open Letter to MailPoet and Future Disclosures
Many don’t know who I am. My name is Tony Perez, I’m the CEO of Sucuri. I have the pleasure of calling this company my…