WPScan Intro: WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
Alycia Mitchell Have you ever wanted to run security tests on your WordPress website to see if it could be easily hacked? WPScan is a black box…
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Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC
Daniel Cid Brute force attacks are one of the oldest and most common types of attacks that we still see on the Internet today. If you have…
Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
Tony Perez 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…
WordPress Brute Force Attacks – 2015 Threat Landscape
One of the first server-level compromises I had to deal with in my life was around 15 years ago, and it was caused by an…
Ask Sucuri: How to Create Website Backups?
Ben Martin Recently I had the good fortune of being able to present at Wordcamp Vancouver 2015. My presentation was titled ‘Why Security Matters‘ and I mentioned…
Analyzing Popular Layer 7 Application DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a major concern for website owners for a while. All types of sites, from small to big,…
Demystifying File and Folder Permissions
If you have poked around a server before you have probably encountered file permissions. In fact, all computer file systems offer permissions based on the…
FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic
Every once in a while we get a case that makes us dig deep to find answers. We have spoken before about the trouble with…
Ask Sucuri: How Did My WordPress Website Get Hacked? – A Tutorial
With the proliferation of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service providers, it is no surprise that a majority of today’s websites are hosting in the…
WP-CLI Guide: Install WordPress via SSH
This is our fourth post on using WP-CLI to manage WordPress securely over SSH. In our first post we showed you how to connect to…
WP-CLI Guide: Secure Plugin & Theme Management
Welcome to our third post on WP-CLI for secure WordPress management over an SSH command line interface. In our previous two articles, we discussed how…