Brute Force Attacks and Their Consequences
Tony Perez 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…
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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…
WordCamp Las Vegas 2012 – Tony Perez: WordPress Security – Dealing with Today’s Hacks
Here is a great presentation given by Tony Perez our COO in October of 2012 at WordCamp Las Vegas:
Ruby on Rails Vulnerability Leads to Remote Command Execution on Servers
As always, the year is kicking off with a bang. This is a public service announcement to get the word out on a very serious…