We just reached 3,000 sites being monitored
David Dede I was very glad to find out today that we reached 3,000 sites being monitored by http://sucuri.net. They are all being checked frequently for DNS,…
Who has better passwords? Men or Women?
A few days ago Tonu Samuel published the distribution of passwords between men and women for a site with more than 800,000 users. Who do…
apache.org hacked?
Apache.org was down for a while this morning and shortly after they released a note about a compromise: This is a short overview of what…
servage.net mass defaced again
It seems that http://www.servage.net/ has been mass defaced again. It is not the first time I hear about them, but it seems they get hacked…
WordPress <= 2.8.3 Remote admin reset password
How to annoy a wordpress admin? By changing his password without confirmation… WordPress get_row($wpdb->prepare(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users WHEREuser_activation_key = %s”, $key)); if ( empty( $user…
The curiosity killed the cat
During the last few months we have been releasing numerous free online tools at Sucuri. One to scan web sites for security issues, another one…
Twitter is down, productivity is up
Twitter has been down for more than one hour today and I suddenly noticed an increased productivity from my peers… any correlation? Maybe that’s related…
Cisco leaking private IP addresses via DNS
One of the first things I learned while setting up my DNS servers was to never leak internal IP addresses to the outside world. Well,…
Multiple top-security sites hacked (zf05)
If you follow the full disclosure mailing list, you are probably aware that many sites of top security professionals were hacked (including Kevin Mitnick, Robert…
Matasano.com hacked
Matasano has just been hacked. They are one of the top security web sites with an amazing group of professionals. This is the screenshot: I…
Careful with Those Shortened Links
Awesome article by Dailyblogtips about the Security of Short links. They even mention Sucuri: If you want to be safe, therefore, only click on shortened…