Malvertising on a Website Without Ads
Fioravante Souza When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest…
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Targeted Phishing Against GoDaddy Customers
Marc Kranat I do get a lot of phishing emails, we all do, but as security professionals we tend to recognize them immediately. Either the syntax is…
Typos Can have a Bigger Impact Than Expected
Have you ever thought about the cost of a typo? You know what I mean, a simple misspelling of a word somewhere on your website.…
Protecting Against Unknown Software Vulnerabilities
Daniel Cid Bugs exist in every piece of code. It is suggested that for every 1,000 lines of code, there are on average 1 to 5 bugs…
Website Malware Removal: Phishing
Joseph Herbrandson As we continue on our Malware Removal series we turn our attention to the increasing threat of Phishing infections. Just like a fisherman casts and…
RSS Reveals Malware Injections
Denis Sinegubko There are multiple different ways to detect invisible malware on a website: You can scrutinize the HTML code of web pages. Use external scanners like…
The Art of Website Malware Removal – The Basics
When talking about defense against malicious hacks, the attack vector is a common topic for Information Security (InfoSec) professionals. The primary concern is to understand…
The Psychology Behind Why Websites Get Hacked
It’s an everyday conversation for security professionals that interact with new customers. The one where we have to explain that just because everything seems fine,…
The Dangers of Hosted Scripts – Hacked jQuery Timers
Google blacklisted a client’s website claiming that malicious content was being displayed from “forogozoropoto(dot)2waky (dot)com”. A scan didn’t reveal anything suspicious. The next step was…
Combat Black Hat SEO Infections with SEO Insights
Alycia Mitchell Black hat SEO spam is the plague of the internet, and the big search engines take it seriously. One of the worst spam tactics on…
Malicious iFrame Injector Found in Adobe Flash File (.SWF)
Peter Gramantik Finding malware in Adobe Flash files (.swf) is nothing new, but it usually affects personal computers, not servers. Typically, a hidden iframe is used to…