What Should You do if Your WordPress Site was Hacked?
Ashley Sand These days WordPress infections are very common. In 2021, internetlivestats.com counted over 81 million websites hacked. If you’re one of the millions, you need to…
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Understanding Website SQL Injections
SQL injection is one of the most common types of web hacking techniques used today. As data breaches continue to happen to some of the…
How to Prevent a DDoS Attack
Rianna MacLeod With DDoS attacks being an ever growing threat to servers across the globe, it’s become a fundamental part of website security. DDoS impacts businesses both…
The People Behind Us – Website Security Champions 2021
Kayleigh Martin is a tier 2 Website Security Analyst. Her daily responsibilities include investigating sites for malware, removing the malware, and advising clients on how…
Finding & Fixing Google Blocklist Warnings
When a website is added to a blocklist by blocklist authorities it can be painfully stressful for their business. SEO rankings take a dive, and…
WordPress 5.8.3 Security Release
Ben Martin On January 6th, an important security update was released for the WordPress core addresses four separate vulnerabilities. WordPress website administrators are advised to update their…
A Walk Through a Year of Website Security: Part II
Part I of our 2021 Security Walkthrough shows the initial 5 posts of our top 10. 6 – Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign…
A Walk Through a Year of Website Security: Part I
Over the last year, Sucuri has provided a wide array of posts in regards to how sites are infected, the types of attacks we’ve discovered,…
Most Interesting Vulnerabilities of 2021
As with most years, there’s been a wide array of critical vulnerabilities found within content management systems, plugins, API keys, etc. We’ll be recapping our…
How to Add SSL & Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS
Making sure your website uses HTTPS should be a top priority for any webmaster In fact, recent statistics show that over 42% of site administrators…
Critical Vulnerabilities in All in One SEO Plugin Affects Millions of WordPress Websites
Security Risk: High Exploitation Level: Easy CVSS Score: 9.9 / 7.7 Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation, SQL Injection Patched Version: 4.1.5.3 Last week, security researcher at Automattic…