Website Security News
View the latest security advisories for website owners to keep aware of. Learn how to protect your site in the changing landscape of security with the latest insights from our research and incident response teams. Stay aware of the latest vulnerabilities affecting websites and content management systems like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, and Magento.
Most of the time when we talk about spam, we think about mindless machines that create posts or comments to advertise a business related to drugs, accessories, or essays. But what if a hacker tried to convince your clients to click on malicious links based…
It’s no news that webmasters commonly make use of external scripts to add more features to their site, but things can turn out for the worse quite easily. What if…
Read More about Lightbox Adware – From Innocent Scripts to Malicious Redirects
Logs can be very useful because they are a record of what was done by whom. They are especially useful when you need to find out more on how a…
Referral programs and affiliate marketing opportunities can be found on many web-based company sites, however, often they’re overlooked. Commonly people consider these programs as something that they, “should leave to the…
It’s not uncommon for bad actors to use compromised websites to send large amounts of email spam. This can cause major headaches for website owners — spam can lead to…
Read More about Reset Email Account Passwords After a Website Malware Infection
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. Welcome to the final post to conclude our series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 12 – Maintain an Information Security Policy
In the past couple of years, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into WordPress sites. This campaign leverages old vulnerabilities (patched a long time ago)…
Read More about From .tk Redirects to PushKa Browser Notification Scam
The WordPress plugin repository team may “close” plugins and restrict downloads when they become aware of a security issue that the developer cannot fix quickly. However, bad actors are actively…
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…
As more people are creating websites and becoming aware of website security, companies are popping up everywhere to help with the problem. And just like website security plugins, not all…
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. Welcome to the seventh post of a series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
