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
Alycia Mitchell 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
Krasimir Konov 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…
10 Tips to Improve Your Website Security
Keir Desailly In recent years there has been a proliferation of great tools and services in the web development space. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!,…
Security Advisory: Object Injection Vulnerability in WooCommerce
Marc-Alexandre Montpas During a routine audit for our WAF, we discovered a dangerous Object Injection vulnerability in WooCommerce which could, in certain contexts, be used by an…
SweetCAPTCHA Service Used to Distribute Adware
Denis Sinegubko SweetCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that offers to match “sweet” images instead of making you recognize distorted digits and characters. It has integrations with…
Your Website’s Been Hacked But No Signs of Infection
Tony Perez Imagine for a moment you suspect that your website has been hacked. Something is off, but you feel as if you are missing what that…
Website Security: How Do Websites Get Hacked?
In 2014, the total number of websites on the internet reached 1 billion. Today it’s hovering somewhere in the neighborhood of 944 million due to…
Fake jQuery Scripts in Nulled WordPress Plugins
We recently investigated some random redirects on a WordPress website that would only happen to certain visitors. Traffic analysis showed us that it was not…