Website Firewall Update – Introducing 2FA and More
Daniel Cid Today we are launching the new and improved Protected Page capability in our Website Firewall. It allows for a simple (1-click) activation of secondary authentication…
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Sucuri CloudProxy – Website Firewall Enhancements
David Dede When LA’s DA says that, “73% of our local businesses appear to have been hacked,” it begins to illustrate the importance website protection will play…
Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security
Estevao Avillez A few weeks back we reported on very large Layer 7 DDOS attacks within the WordPress ecosystem. Today we decided to provide you a little…
Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack
Recently a client was experiencing a massive layer 7 DDOS attack, generating tens of thousands of random HTTP requests per second to the server. The…
Does Sucuri Work With My Host? Yes, Yes We Do.
We’ve been scanning and removing malware from websites for years and in this time frame we have seen the website security domain grow by leaps…
Patching The Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
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…
Ad Violations: Why Search Engines Won’t Display Your Site If it’s Infected With Malware
As your website’s webmaster have you ever seen an e-mail from Google like this?: Hello, We wanted to alert you that one of your sites…
Understanding Denial of Service and Brute Force Attacks – WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, vBulletin
Tony Perez Many are likely getting emails with the following subject header: Large Distributed Brute Force WordPress Attack Underway – 40,000 Attacks Per Minute. Just this week…
More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s okay because it’s a very serious issue for…
Highly Effective Joomla Backdoor with Small Profile
Fioravante Souza It feels like every day we’re finding gems, or what appear to be gems to us. We try to balance the use of the term,…
Sucuri CloudProxy Website Firewall Improvements
If you are are a regular reader of our blog you probably know about our CloudProxy Website Firewall, it launched publicly a year ago. Since…