Dissecting the WordPress 5.2.3 Update
Marc-Alexandre Montpas Last week, WordPress released version 5.2.3 which was a security and maintenance update, and as such, contained many security fixes. Part of our day to…
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How to Audit & Cleanup WordPress Plugins & Themes
Pilar Garcia In an interview with Smashing Magazine our CoFounder (now Head of Security Products at GoDaddy) Tony Perez was asked the following question. What Makes WordPress…
Throwback Threat Thursday: Joomla GoogleMaps Plugin SEO Spam Injection
Fioravante Souza Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these…
What is Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?
Brian Bautista Before we get into the details of “Cryptocurrency Mining Malware”, we need to understand first what cryptocurrency is and what miners are. What is Cryptocurrency?…
TimThumb Attacks: The Scale of Legacy Malware Infections
Denis Sinegubko These days, we consider a malware campaign massive if it affects a couple thousand websites. However, back in the day when Sucuri first started its…
How to Improve Ecommerce Security
Chase Watts If you have an ecommerce website, you are certainly concerned about ecommerce security. Business revenue depends on your online presence and having a website compromise…
Internet Cookies: What Are They and Are They Good or Bad?
Victor Santoyo Cookies! I LOVE Cookies. Oatmeal raisin are one of my particular favorite flavors. However, we’re not here to talk about baked goods as much as…
How Domain Expiration Can Potentially Disrupt Other Websites
Luke Leal A website owner recently reached out to us about a pop-up advertisement problem on their website which occurred any time someone clicked anywhere on the…
The Largest DDoS Attacks & What You Can Learn From Them
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attack that focuses on making the website unavailable to its legitimate users. DDoS attacks can produce service interruptions,…
Sucuri Can Help Secure Your Client Websites
Stephen Johnston At Sucuri, we understand that most web professionals and web agencies ultimately need to make their clients part of the decision-making process for choosing to…
What Hackers Do after Gaining Access to a Website
A hack or cyber attack is the act of maliciously entering, taking control over, or manipulating by force a web application, server, or file that…