Critical Update for JetPack WordPress Plugin
Daniel Cid The Jetpack team just released a critical security update to fix a security vulnerability in the Jetpack WordPress plugin. The vulnerability allows an attacker to…
Patching The Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability
Security Researchers have discovered a very serious vulnerability in the OpenSSL library that is used to power HTTPS on most websites. Many news sources are…
Ad Violations: Why Search Engines Won’t Display Your Site If it’s Infected With Malware
David Dede As your website’s webmaster have you ever seen an e-mail from Google like this?: Hello, We wanted to alert you that one of your sites…
Thumb Wars: Sucuri Acquires Google Webmaster Tools
Dre Armeda Today Sucuri unofficially acquires Google Webmaster Tools. In an effort to combine forces of good, Sucuri officials challenged Google to a thumb wrestling war. Here…
JCE Joomla Extension Attacks in the Wild
Our friends from SpiderLabs, issued a warning today on their blog about increased activity on their honeypots looking to exploit the old JCE (Joomla Content…
Unmasking “Free” Premium WordPress Plugins
Denis Sinegubko WordPress has a large repository of free plugins (currently 30,000+) that can add almost any functionality to your blog. However, there is still a market…
Windigo Linux Analysis – Ebury and Cdorked
Our friends over at ESET released a very detailed document about the Windigo Operation. The Windigo Operation has been responsible for the compromise of thousands…
Security Exploit Patched on vBulletin – PHP Object Injection
The vBulletin team just issued a warning, and released patches for a security exploit that affected all versions of vBulletin including 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8,…
Understanding Denial of Service and Brute Force Attacks – WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, vBulletin
Tony Perez Many are likely getting emails with the following subject header: Large Distributed Brute Force WordPress Attack Underway – 40,000 Attacks Per Minute. Just this week…
More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s okay because it’s a very serious issue for…
Joomla Security Updates – Version 2.5.19 and 3.2.3 Released
The Joomla team just released two security updates and pushed out the stable versions for Joomla 2.5.19 and 3.2.3. If you run your site on…