Keeping Your WordPress Themes Updated
Dre Armeda We talk a lot about keeping WordPress and the plugins you use updated. That’s great and all, but you also have to remember that it…
Host4africa Mass Compromise
David Dede We are seeing a lot of sites hosted at host4africa.com compromised with Blackhat Spam SEO. Most of them are in the .co.za TLD (at 74.53.0.0/16…
The Danger of Remote Widgets – Feedcat.net Sold and Now Distributing Malware
Do you like to add all types of “widgets” and cool badges to your site? Be careful which ones do you choose, or your site…
Top linked sites – What webmasters are linking to
We scan hundreds of thousands of sites daily here at Sucuri and while analyzing some of the data we got interested on what sites are…
Python: No such file or directory – Your site is likely compromised
If you run a WordPress site and you are seeing the following error at the top of your pages: sh: /usr/local/bin/python: No such file or directory…
Google blocks .co.cc, attackers are now using .co.tv
It is being reported that Google took action against the high number of malware sites in the .co.cc domain, removing more than 11 million sites…
WordPress 3.2 and PHP support – Security effect
WordPress 3.2 is going to be released very soon and one of the biggest changes is that they will drop support for PHP4 and all…
WordPress 3.1.4 available – Time to update
If you are running WordPress, it is time to update it now. WordPress v3.1.4 was just released with security fixes for all the previous versions…
Phishing phone calls – Onlinesupport.com
Daniel Cid It was early morning (around 8am) and I received a phone call from someone asking for me by name (using a private number and with…
WP-phpmyadmin WordPress plugin – Delete it now
If you are using the WP-phpmyadmin WordPress plugin, delete it now. We are seeing multiple sites getting hacked through it and we are investigating what…
WordPress plugins hacked – Understanding the backdoor
If you haven’t heard about it already, yesterday three popular WordPress plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) had a malicious backdoor added to them…