Website Security News
Today is World Backup Day. This date was created to remind people of the importance of having backups set up for everything that matters. I am pretty sure your website falls into the category of precious digital assets. Why are website backups important? Imagine waking up in the morning to see that…
Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) can be a great tool in your security arsenal. You may not know you’re using them, but all email providers and company email servers leverage these…
Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and regional PoPs — often performing…
Read More about Optimizing Performance and Behavior with WordPress and the Sucuri WAF
In mass infection scenarios, our Malware Research team often looks for attack vectors to find patterns and other similarities among compromised websites. The identification of these patterns allows us to…
Read More about Critical Vulnerabilities in 123contactform-for-wordpress WordPress Plugin
Shopping season is here, and so is the opportunity for ecommerce site owners to grow their business and generate revenue. In lieu of the changing global ecommerce climate that this…
The responsibility of ensuring that a website is protected falls on the website owner, but the security expectation may fall on the web service provider too. As a professional, you…
Read More about Opening the Conversation about Website Security
MalwareBytes recently shared some information about web skimmers that store malicious code inside real .ico files. During a routine investigation, we detected a similar issue. Instead of targeting .ico files,…
It’s a well-known fact that website backups are important for mitigating a plethora of site issues. They can help restore a site after a compromise or even facilitate the investigative…
When it comes to content management systems (CMS) for websites, Drupal is a highly flexible and extendible open-source solution. It is often preferred by technical developers and large government and…
Read More about New Drupal Website Security Best Practices Guide
In today’s internet age we take our privacy for granted. We sign up for many services which are “free.” We participate in giveaways and generally give out information about ourselves…
Read More about How to Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from Search Engines
The current COVID-19 epidemic is changing the way people work, rapidly moving to working remotely as I have done for 20 years. I am providing this advice for smaller businesses…
Read More about VPN: A Key to Securing an Online Work Environment
