Website Security News
The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities to massively exploit, our team works diligently around the clock to identify, analyze, and protect…
One of our analysts, Kaushal Bhavsar, found a malicious DoS file within a compromised website’s filesystem under the filename 403.php. The file attempts to conceal itself from casual viewers by…
As we settle into 2020, it’s a good time to look back at what was learned in the previous year. After all, the past provides valuable lessons for the future….
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attack that focuses on making the website unavailable to its legitimate users. DDoS attacks can produce service interruptions, introduce large response delays, and…
Read More about The Largest DDoS Attacks & What You Can Learn From Them
DDoS attacks are a growing threat for websites. But do you know how to mitigate them in their tracks? We’ll cover some essential fundamentals on stopping a DDoS attack and…
Read More about How to Stop a DDoS Attack & Prevent Future Attacks
Nowadays, DDoS is a pretty recognizable term. Though many webmasters don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is—its method is very subtle to identify—they’re pretty sure it’s a bad thing….
Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search traffic that Google does? Search…
Though the Sucuri Firewall is simple to set up and protects your website immediately, it’s possible to have granular control of the WAF by using an API. For instance, there’s…
Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you less than a second this…
Read More about Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools
In 2016, I shared some thoughts about firewalls in general; their history and purpose in the information security domain. The point of the article was to help website owners differentiate…
Read More about Website Application Firewalls (WAF) – Practical Approach to Website Security
A few weeks ago we ran an experiment to see how long it would take for some IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers to be compromised via SSH brute force attacks. We…
