When Good Plugins Go Bad – SEO Spam on Joomla Websites
Daniel Cid We recently published an article about an interesting case where a very popular WordPress Plugin (Social Media Widget), with more than 900,000 downloads, got sold…
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WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget Hiding Spam – Remove it now
Authored by Daniel Cid and Tony Perez. If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your…
WordPress Security Presentation by Tony Perez
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…
Virtual Hardening with Sucuri CloudProxy
If you read our blog you know that we are really open to providing insight into malware infections, remediation and hardening tips. The goal is…
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…
Dre Armeda Presenting on WordPress Security at WordCamp Phoenix 2013
Here is the video for the WordPress Security presentation at WordCamp Phoenix 2013: Here is the slide deck from the presentation: Leave us your comments…
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…
WordPress 3.5.1 Released
The WordPress team just pushed out a new version of WordPress (3.5.1) that has some security bugs fixed. Straight from their release post, these are…
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:
W3 Total Cache Implementation Vulnerability
Just in time for Christmas, it was announced on the full disclosure list a security (configuration/implementation) bug on W3 Total cache (W3TC), one of the…
Website Malware – Sharp Increase in SPAM Attacks – WordPress & Joomla
This past week we have seen a sharp increase in the use of old tactics designed to poison your search engine results – also known…