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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.
This is the second post of a series about Steps to Keep Your Site Clean. In the first post, we talked about Access Points; here we are going to offer more insight on Updates. Updates Repeatedly we see websites being infected or reinfected when important security…
If I were to ask if you could trust a script from Google that is loading on your website, the majority of users would say “yes” or even “absolutely”. But…
Read More about Malicious Activities with Google Tag Manager
As a website owner, it’s a good idea to be aware of the security issues that might affect your site. For example, Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks consist of injecting malicious…
If you want to make your website security more robust, you need to think about hardening. To harden your website means to add different layers of protection to reduce the…
Unfortunately, most website owners know what it’s like to have a site hacked – the panic, the rush to find anyone out there that can help, and the worry it…
Read More about Steps to Keep Your Site Clean: Access Points
Last year, we introduced the theme of Securing an Online Store. We talked about how to identify the potential risks and what to look out for. These principles can help…
Last week, we explained what zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks are. Essentially, zero-day vulnerabilities exist in the wild, with no patch available to prevent hackers from exploiting it. Today, we would…
Our mission at Sucuri is to make the internet a safer place and that entails cleaning up hacked websites. We have teams who actively research website vulnerabilities and who are…
Have you ever wondered what WAF means? WAF stands for Website Application Firewall. In order to make it simple to understand, imagine your website as a house and the people…
On Monday, November 20th, we were notified about a vulnerability that poses a serious security risk when the Shortcodes Ultimate and Formidable Forms plugins are used together on a single…
Read More about Formidable Forms / Shortcodes Ultimate Exploits In The Wild
Shopping season is here, and with that, so is the opportunity for ecommerce site owners to grow their revenue and reputation. However, hackers are also busy infecting ecommerce websites with…
Read More about Risks For E-commerce Site Owners Through the Holidays
