WP-CLI Guide: Secure Plugin & Theme Management
Alycia Mitchell Welcome to our third post on WP-CLI for secure WordPress management over an SSH command line interface. In our previous two articles, we discussed how…
SweetCAPTCHA Returns Hijacking Another Plugin
Denis Sinegubko Yesterday we observed a strange short return of the SweetCaptcha plugin to WordPress.org repository. In June we reported that SweetCaptcha injected third-party ad code to…
Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam
Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your comment…
WP-CLI Guide: Secure WordPress Backup and Update
Welcome to our second post in the series on WP-CLI for WordPress management over SSH. In our previous post, we discussed how to get your…
Webutation Distributing Malware Through Safety Badge
Krasimir Konov If you are using the Webutation badge on your site, remove it now. It appears they got hacked and are distributing malware to mobile devices…
WP-CLI Guide: Connect to WordPress via SSH Intro
Do you use the WordPress dashboard to update plugins and themes? How do you back up your database? If you have not used it yet,…
10 Years of Joomla! – Supporting JoomlaDay Minnesota
Michael Dickens II As Joomla prepares to celebrate its 10 year anniversary, we want to be certain to join in the festivities. Why? Because open source platforms allow individuals…
Common Website Security Terminology Defined
If you want to keep your website safe, it is important to understand the website security terminology used to describe the causes and effects of…
Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm
Fioravante Souza Here at Sucuri we suspect everything, especially when your friends start to share content written in another language with clickbait headlines. Malicious Facebook posts are…
Magento Platform Targeted By Credit Card Scrapers
Peter Gramantik We’ve been writing a lot about ecommerce hacks and PCI Compliance recently. The more people buy things online, the more of an issue this will…
Websites Hacked Via Website Backups
For the past few months, we’ve spent a good deal of time talking about backups. This is for good reason: backups are your safety net…