Update WP Super Cache and W3TC Immediately – Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Disclosed
Tony Perez Shame on us for not catching this a month ago when it was first reported, but it seems that two of the biggest caching plugins…
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Cyber Criminals Take Advantage of Recent Boston Attack with SPAM
It pains me to write about this at all, but as despicable as this might appear, cyber criminals have started to take advantage of those…
Brute Force Attacks and Their Consequences
There is a lot of interesting discussion across the interwebs on the intention of the latest string of brute force attacks. While I can’t repudiate…
WordPress Security Presentation by Tony Perez
Tomorrow I will be flying to my hometown (Miami) to give a Website Security presentation to a bunch of enthusiastic online professionals at an event…
UNICAMP – Used to Host Phishing Pages
Magno Rodrigues We just discovered that UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), a renowned Brazilian University, has had their infrastructure compromised and it is being used to host…
Linux Based SSHD Rootkit Floating The Interwebs
For the past couple of days we have been a lot of discussion on a number of forums about a potential kernel rootkit making its…
WordPress Plugin: Easy Digital Downloads – Security Flaw Discovered and Patchedd
Dre Armeda Last night we were contacted by Adam Pickering about a security flaw discovered in Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), a free WordPress eCommerce plugin that allows…
Twitter Suffers Compromise – Enterprise Attacks Continue
Looks like Twitter is the latest to get bit in the butt. They just put out the following on their blog: This week, we detected…
Web Server Attacks – Apache Modules, Log Management and RELM
New year, same tricks, mostly because they work. That’s how we’re kicking off the new year folks. In September of 2012, Dennis, of Unmask Parasites,…
WordPress Security: 5 Steps To Reduce Your Risk
Update 11/3/2017: Check out our latest WordPress Security Guide for best practices to keep your website protected and learn about vulnerabilities. Often you hear the…
Website Security – The Importance of Access
I’m not sure why more emphasis isn’t put on access in website security discussions, but I’ll spend some time on it today. Understand that this…