10 Tips to Improve Your Website Security
Keir Desailly In recent years there has been a proliferation of great tools and services in the web development space. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!,…
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SweetCAPTCHA Service Used to Distribute Adware
Denis Sinegubko SweetCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that offers to match “sweet” images instead of making you recognize distorted digits and characters. It has integrations with…
Your Website’s Been Hacked But No Signs of Infection
Tony Perez Imagine for a moment you suspect that your website has been hacked. Something is off, but you feel as if you are missing what that…
Website Security: How Do Websites Get Hacked?
In 2014, the total number of websites on the internet reached 1 billion. Today it’s hovering somewhere in the neighborhood of 944 million due to…
How Social Media Blacklisting Happens
Val Vesa In today’s world, we are all browsing websites online and sharing content on a multitude of social media platforms every day. Worldwide social media users…
Hacked Websites Redirect to Bitcoin
Recently, we began to notice that some hacked websites were redirecting traffic from certain browsers to the BitCoin site, bitcoin.org. What’s going on? Is Bitcoin using…
My Website Was Blacklisted By Google and Distributing Email Spam
Being blacklisted by Google is one of the worst things that can happen to a website. The public shame coming from every visitor being stopped…
Security Advisory: XSS Vulnerability Affecting Multiple WordPress Plugins
Daniel Cid Multiple WordPress Plugins are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to the misuse of the add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions. These are popular functions used by…
Critical Magento Shoplift Vulnerability (SUPEE-5344) – Patch Immediately!
The Magento team released a critical security patch (SUPEE-5344) to address a remote command execution (RCE) vulnerability back in February. It’s been more than two months…
Critical Microsoft IIS Vulnerability Leads to RCE (MS15-034)
Rafael Capovilla Microsoft just disclosed a serious vulnerability (MS15-034) on their Web Server IIS that allows for remote and unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) and/or Remote Code Execution…
Impacts of a Hack on a Magento Ecommerce Website
Recently we wrote about the impacts of a hacked website and how it is important to give website visitors a safe online experience. In this…