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May 9, 2017Cesar Anjos

Fake WordPrssAPI Stealing Cookies and Hijacking Sessions

Cookies are stored in the user’s browser to track behavior on a specific website. They also keep a user logged in during the active browsing session. Without cookies a user would need to log in, in order to authenticate every action they take. Essentially, cookies…

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November 29, 2016Luke Leal

Ask Sucuri: Can Your cPanel Page Be Maliciously Redirected?

Many webmasters may not be aware that hackers are able to maliciously redirect cPanel pages. The specific tactic we describe in this article is unique. Included are recommendations to prevent…

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October 31, 2016Denis Sinegubko

Learning From Buggy WordPress Wp-login Malware

When a site gets hacked, the attack doesn’t end with the malicious payload or spam content. Hackers know that most website administrators will clean up the infection and look no…

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October 26, 2016Marc-Alexandre Montpas

Details on the Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Joomla

Yesterday, Joomla! 3.6.4 was released, patching a critical privilege escalation and arbitrary account creation vulnerability. As we’ve seen some exploits attempts occurring in the wild, we feel it is a…

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October 25, 2016Daniel Cid

Joomla Account Creation Vulnerability

The Joomla team released a patch for a serious security vulnerability affecting all Joomla versions from 3.4.4 and up. If you’re using one of these versions of Joomla, you’re encouraged…

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September 8, 2015Denis Sinegubko

Malicious Google Search Console Verifications

This past summer we noticed a trend of more and more Blackhat SEO hacks trying to verify additional accounts as owners of compromised sites in Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools). Google…

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September 1, 2015Alycia Mitchell

Demystifying File and Folder Permissions

If you have poked around a server before you have probably encountered file permissions. In fact, all computer file systems offer permissions based on the same core ideas. The file…

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June 16, 2015Keir Desailly

10 Tips to Improve Your Website Security

In recent years there has been a proliferation of great tools and services in the web development space. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and so many others,…

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June 6, 2014Daniel Cid

Website Firewall Update – Introducing 2FA and More

Today we are launching the new and improved Protected Page capability in our Website Firewall. It allows for a simple (1-click) activation of secondary authentication methods on any page of…

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April 11, 2013Tony Perez

Protecting Against WordPress Brute-Force Attacks

It was not long ago that I was sitting on a call with other members of the WordPress community in which we were talking abou brute-force. When asked why WordPress…

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January 21, 2013Tony Perez

Website Security – The Importance of Access

I’m not sure why more emphasis isn’t put on access in website security discussions, but I’ll spend some time on it today. Understand that this emphasis is not just something…

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