Was the FIFA Website Hacked?
Estevao Avillez As many know, our company has deep Brazilian roots, as such we have no choice but to enamored with the upcoming World Cup. Yes, the…
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Desktop AVs and Website Security
Rafael Capovilla Brian Dye recently told Wall Street Journal that antivirus tools (like his company Norton) are effectively “dead” because they catch less than half of all…
Does Sucuri Work With My Host? Yes, Yes We Do.
David Dede We’ve been scanning and removing malware from websites for years and in this time frame we have seen the website security domain grow by leaps…
AdSense Blackmail – Hacking Websites for Profit
We deal with different types of malware injections and compromises everyday and the most common question our clients ask us is, “Why me? Why my…
HeartBleed in the Wild
Daniel Cid As most of you probably already know, ten days ago security researchers disclosed a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL library, which is used to…
Thumb Wars: Sucuri Acquires Google Webmaster Tools
Dre Armeda Today Sucuri unofficially acquires Google Webmaster Tools. In an effort to combine forces of good, Sucuri officials challenged Google to a thumb wrestling war. Here…
Unmasking “Free” Premium WordPress Plugins
Denis Sinegubko WordPress has a large repository of free plugins (currently 30,000+) that can add almost any functionality to your blog. However, there is still a market…
Joomla Security Updates – Version 2.5.19 and 3.2.3 Released
The Joomla team just released two security updates and pushed out the stable versions for Joomla 2.5.19 and 3.2.3. If you run your site on…
Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or…
Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics
This post is about how hackers abuse popular web services and how this helps security researchers obtain interesting statistics about malware attacks. We, at Sucuri,…
Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking
Corporations get hacked all the time. This is not news to anyone in the security business, but it has certainly received a lot of attention…