Attacks on Closed WordPress Plugins
John Castro 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.…
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DDoS Targeting WordPress Search
Northon Torga 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…
How to Choose a Website Security Provider
Josh Hammer 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…
PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
Victor Santoyo 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.…
The Importance of Website Logs
Krasimir Konov As a security company, we deal with a lot of compromised websites. Unfortunately, in most cases, we have limited access to customer logs, which is…
Add Security to Your Website Agency Portfolio
Eli Lopez As a website industry professional, you are aware of the importance of website security. This is especially true when managing 10 or more sites. How…
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…
How to Prevent Cross-Site Contamination for Beginners
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in…
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,…
OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part V
Gerson Ruiz To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The…
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…