Security Advisory – Akeeba Backup for Joomla!
Marc-Alexandre Montpas We have also released a more recent post exploring this vulnerability further: The Details Behind the Akeeba Backup Vulnerability If you’re a user of the…
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WordPress Plugin Alert – LoginWall Imposter Exposed
Rafael Capovilla When you work with malware for a while, you start to become very good at pattern recognition. A couple sites in every hundred cleaned might…
Patching The Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
Daniel Cid Security Researchers have discovered a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL library that is used to power HTTPS on most websites. Many news sources are…
JCE Joomla Extension Attacks in the Wild
Our friends from SpiderLabs, issued a warning today on their blog about increased activity on their honeypots looking to exploit the old JCE (Joomla Content…
vBulletin.com Compromised
The vBulletin team recently announced that they suffered a compromise which allowed the attackers access to vbulletin.com servers and database. On their own words: We…
Server Update Time: OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed
David Dede The OpenSSH team just released a security advisory about a vulnerability affecting both OpenSSH 6.2 and 6.3. If you are not familiar with OpenSSH, it’s…
Avira, AVG and WhatsApp Defaced
Estevao Avillez If you visited the web sites for Avira, AVG or WhatsApp this morning, you probably saw that they didn’t look like they should. All of…
WordPress 3.6.1 Released – Includes Security Fixes
Dre Armeda The WordPress team just pushed out a new version of WordPress. WordPress 3.6.1 is a maintenance release that includes some security bug fixes. Straight from…
OpenX.org Compromised and Downloads Injected with a Backdoor
We received reports that OpenX.org was compromised and the OpenX download files had a backdoor injected in them. According to Heise (in German), the malicious…
New WordPress and Joomla Updates Available
If you are a WordPress or Joomla user, you better start updating your sites now. Joomla 2.5.14 Joomla 2.5.14 was released containing some critical security…
Ubuntu Forums Hacked
Ubuntu’s official forum web site (ubuntuforums.org) was hacked, defaced and all user names and passwords stolen. The forum was very popular with over 1.8 million…