Protecting Against WordPress Brute-Force Attacks
Tony Perez It was not long ago that I was sitting on a call with other members of the WordPress community in which we were talking abou…
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WordPress Security Presentation by Tony Perez
Tomorrow I will be flying to my hometown (Miami) to give a Website Security presentation to a bunch of enthusiastic online professionals at an event…
Comment SPAM Bad Neighborhood Analysis (2013-Mar)
Daniel Cid We track and block a lot of comment SPAM via our WordPress plugin and our CloudProxy WAF. One thing we noticed is that the majority…
Virtual Hardening with Sucuri CloudProxy
If you read our blog you know that we are really open to providing insight into malware infections, remediation and hardening tips. The goal is…
Virtual Patching for Websites with Sucuri CloudProxy
All software has bugs, and some bugs can lead to security vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities can be extremely dangerous when your software is running over the web,…
2012 Web Malware Trends Report Summary
Sucuri is a website security company focused on the detection and remediation of web malware. In 2012, via our SiteCheck scanner, we scanned 9,953,729 unique…
Website Malware – Fixing Joomla SPAM Hacks – Conditional Payloads
Our Senior Malware Engineer, Fioravante Cavallari, is at it again. I think he has made it his personal mission in life to expel all Joomla…
NBC Website HACKED – Be Careful Surfing
Breaking, the NBC site is currently compromised and blacklisted by Google. Anyone that visits the site (which includes any sub page) will have malicious iframes…
Various Shades of Malware – Abusing Your Resources
We often write about very clear cut cases of malware activity. The attacker is leveraging your traffic, redirecting it to other locations, or injecting things…
Web Server Compromise – Debian Distro – Identify and Remove Corrupt Apache Modules
Came across another server compromise this week. Client was complaining that the following kept being injected into their JavaScript files: document.write("<style.vb4brk { position:absolute; left:-1655px; top:-1476px} </style> <div…
WordPress Security: 5 Steps To Reduce Your Risk
Dre Armeda Update 11/3/2017: Check out our latest WordPress Security Guide for best practices to keep your website protected and learn about vulnerabilities. Often you hear the…