WP-CLI Guide: Connect to WordPress via SSH Intro
Alycia Mitchell Do you use the WordPress dashboard to update plugins and themes? How do you back up your database? If you have not used it yet,…
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10 Years of Joomla! – Supporting JoomlaDay Minnesota
Michael Dickens II As Joomla prepares to celebrate its 10 year anniversary, we want to be certain to join in the festivities. Why? Because open source platforms allow individuals…
Common Website Security Terminology Defined
If you want to keep your website safe, it is important to understand the website security terminology used to describe the causes and effects of…
Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm
Fioravante Souza Here at Sucuri we suspect everything, especially when your friends start to share content written in another language with clickbait headlines. Malicious Facebook posts are…
Websites Hacked Via Website Backups
Krasimir Konov For the past few months, we’ve spent a good deal of time talking about backups. This is for good reason: backups are your safety net…
10 Tips to Improve Your Website Security
Keir Desailly In recent years there has been a proliferation of great tools and services in the web development space. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!,…
Security Advisory: Object Injection Vulnerability in WooCommerce
Marc-Alexandre Montpas During a routine audit for our WAF, we discovered a dangerous Object Injection vulnerability in WooCommerce which could, in certain contexts, be used by an…
Your Website’s Been Hacked But No Signs of Infection
Tony Perez Imagine for a moment you suspect that your website has been hacked. Something is off, but you feel as if you are missing what that…
Website Security: How Do Websites Get Hacked?
In 2014, the total number of websites on the internet reached 1 billion. Today it’s hovering somewhere in the neighborhood of 944 million due to…
How Social Media Blacklisting Happens
Val Vesa In today’s world, we are all browsing websites online and sharing content on a multitude of social media platforms every day. Worldwide social media users…
Critical Microsoft IIS Vulnerability Leads to RCE (MS15-034)
Rafael Capovilla Microsoft just disclosed a serious vulnerability (MS15-034) on their Web Server IIS that allows for remote and unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) and/or Remote Code Execution…