How Malware Gets On Your Website
Ashley Sand Almost since the Internet’s inception malware infections have kept pace to be the biggest nuisance a site owner experiences. With an ever growing amount of…
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E-commerce Website Security Strategy for Holiday Shopping Season
As shopping season approaches once again, we’d like to give you some helpful advice when it comes to managing an e-commerce site, and how to…
PHP Re-Infectors: How To Stop PHP Malware That Keeps Coming Back
Matt Morrow We all know why bad actors infect sites: monetary gain, boosts in SEO ratings for their malware or spam campaigns and a number of other…
Is My Site Hacked? 4 Gut Checks
Allison Bondi The consequences of a hacked site have wide-ranging financial repercussions that extend beyond the cost of cleaning the site. Drop-offs can be anticipated for new…
WordPress Admin Creator – A Simple, But Effective Attack
Kayleigh Martin Malicious admin users get added to vulnerable WordPress sites often. This can happen in a variety of different ways, and sometimes the malware that creates…
What We’ve Learned About SSH Brute Force Attacks
The first time I encountered brute force attacks I was a hosting specialist who received calls from frustrated site owners that wanted to know who’d…
Why You Shouldn’t Use SMS For 2FA
Two factor authentication (2FA) provides an extra layer of security that passwords alone can’t provide. Requiring an extra step for users to verify their identity…
7 Audacious Hacks & What We Can Learn From Them …
While stressful and costly to the victim, hacks can also be an opportunity for onlookers to learn how to prevent getting breached. Hacks create an…
An Overview of Website Reinfection Vectors
Ben Martin The website security landscape is as complicated as it is treacherous. We often deal with clients who become reinfected over and over again. Once the…
What is a Website Backdoor?
What is a Backdoor? A backdoor provides a shortcut for authorized or unauthorized users to gain access to an unauthorized location of a website, software,…
Fake Ransomware Infection Spooks Website Owners
Starting this past Friday we have seen a number of websites showing a fake ransomware infection. Google search results for “FOR RESTORE SEND 0.1 BITCOIN”…