Google Blacklist Warning: Something’s Not Right Here!
Tony Perez Google recently put out a post talking to the past 5 years offering the Safe Browsing program and summarized in a post titled: Google Safe…
Malware That Pretends To Be Google
Daniel Cid Malware authors (AKA the criminals or the bad guys), use many advanced techniques to hide their activities. From encoding, to encrypting, to auto-generated random domains,…
Microsoft XML Core Service Zero Day Vulnerability Being Targeted
On June 12th we reported the release of a new Microsoft Security Advisory. It was of specific interest to us as it was exploitable via…
WordPress Update – 3.3.3 and 3.4.1 Patches Released!!
Well it was only a few weeks ago, but today, two new patches were released: 3.3.3 and 3.4.1. The good news is, as they are…
Uploadify, Uploadify and Uploadify – The New TimThumb?
We are seeing a lot of noise again regarding the Uploadify script vulnerabilities affecting some WordPress themes/plugins. If you are not familiar, Uploadify allows anyone…
Plesk Vulnerability Leading to Malware
Our friends over at Unmask Parasites posted two very good reports about a mix of Plesk vulnerabilities being used to mass-compromise websites, and redirecting them…
How To: Lock Your Site by Enabling a Second Layer of Authentication
I put together a post this weekend about my personal experience installing a WordPress site on a clean Server. In the process of hardening the…
Sucuri Labs Weekly Review – June 22nd – 2012
Have you checked out Sucuri Labs? We have been adding a daily feed of the top web-based malware samples that we find every day, and…
Understanding Conditional Malware – IP Centric Variation
In today’s web malware landscape you can’t help but take a minute to familiarize yourself with a concept known as conditional malware. As implied in…
Google Safe Browsing Program 5 Years Old – Been Blacklisted Lately?
Today Google released a nice post: Safe Browsing – Protecting Web Users for 5 Years and Counting. In it they provide a good summary of…
How To: Stop The Hacker By Hardening WordPress
Every day we service 100’s of clients and the question is always asked: How do you stop these hackers!!!” Unfortunately, it’s perhaps the hardest to…