Security Vulnerability in MySQL
David Dede A serious security vulnerability discovered in MySQL was disclosed this weekend. It basically allows anyone to bypass authentication and log in directly into the database.…
Understanding Opportunistic Attacks
Tony Perez In many of the presentations we give each year we often talk about the concept of an opportunistic attack and for some it might be…
Sucuri SiteCheck – Web Malware Distribution – May 2012
Daniel Cid Last month ( May 2012), we were able to identify 94,866 compromised (hacked) websites using our free SiteCheck scanner. These were the top infections per…
Public Service Annoucement: Last.fm Passwords Compromised
Wow, what a week!!! Yet another firm, Last.fm, is claiming to have their passwords compromised. Per comments from last.fm it looks like the same attacker…
PRWeb Stores Passwords In Clear Text
It is 2012 and with the growing web threats you would expect to see increased measures to protect user credentials. We hope that in the…
Public Service Announcement: LinkedIn Spear Phishing Attempts
As to be expected new spear phishing attempts are being released into the wild to capitalize on yesterday’s LinkedIn breech. Its too be expected as…
LinkedIn Password Dump Verified
As you might imagine, we couldn’t contain ourselves this morning when we heard of the LinkedIn compromise and had to go searching for the dump.…
Introducing Sucuri Labs – Complimenting the Sucuri Research Blog
The content of this site is often a compilation of information derived from our internal lab. Today, we are happy to announce that components of…
Public Service Annoucement: LinkedIn Users Change Your Passwords
Rumors are quickly spreading on the web that approximately 6.5 million LinkedIn password hashes may have been leaked via a Russian hacker site. Regardless of…
Sucuri Introduces Server-Side Scanning
Today we released to all our clients a new feature that will improve the accuracy and effectiveness of all our scanners – server-side scanning. If…
Recent Communication Failure – No Email Responses
Hi Everyone We have been getting a lot of inquiries lately on the lack of our response via email and I wanted to take a…