Cleaning up an infected website – Part I: WordPress and the Pharma Hack
David Dede New release! On 11/03/2017 everything you need to know on how to secure your WP site came out and it includes best practices and a…
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What to Do When Your Site Gets Blacklisted
Most site owners only start to think about security when their site gets hacked (infected with malware) and consequently blacklisted by Google with a malware…
Yet Another WordPress Security Post – Part One
Tony Perez At the end of October we had the opportunity to attend WordCamp Las Vegas. WordCamp’s are great events organized in various cities/countries by the WordPress…
The Mission of Security Awareness
Dre Armeda This article was written by Christopher Vera, CISSP, HISP, GCFA, GLEG for Sucuri. Of all the elements of a successful cyber security program, security awareness…
Simple cleanup solution for the latest WordPress hack
Updated 20160914 This post is very specific to one type of infection, there are many different types of infections and symptoms, do not be discouraged…
Leaking private IP addresses via DNS
Ever wondered where Cisco store their logs? Or what is the IP address for the Facebook development box? Or how a certain big company organize…
APT – Attempting to steal your domain
We all hear of APT (advanced persistent threat) and this is a good example of one trying to steal the vl.com domain. Very good read:…
Cloud-based (FILE) Integrity Monitoring
If you are a system administrator or have ever worked with security, you probably heard the terms file integrity monitoring or file integrity checking. If…
The Importance of logging for web applications – Security talk
If you think that your logs are only useful when something crashes or when you need to troubleshoot errors on your web application, think again!…
Honeypot analysis – Full disclosure works
When all else fails, *full disclosure (the process) seems to work. Early in January, we sent a bunch of emails to the people at the…
Improve Domain Name Security, Lessons Learned
I was very glad to interested to read this article by http://syedaqeel.com/ where he talks about a recent domain name hijacking that he suffered and…