Contact Form Spam Attack: An Innocent Feature Caused a Massive Problem
Gabriel Barbosa How a simple “Send a copy to yourself” feature led to 149,700 spam emails and what you can do to prevent it The Emergency Call…
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Introducing Sucuri Academy: Your New Destination for Website Security Education
Pilar Garcia Learn. Secure. Lead. We’re excited to introduce the beta launch of Sucuri Academy—a cutting-edge learning platform designed to empower website owners, developers, and digital professionals…
Enhancing File Transfer Security with SSH Key Authentication
Kyle Knight Attackers scan for TCP 22 and 2222 around the clock. When they find an open port, they launch credential-stuffing lists harvested from previous leaks, brute-force…
Understanding Spamhaus and Its Role in Email Security
In an era when email remains one of the most important forms of communication for business, commerce, and personal use, ensuring that emails reach their…
How to Make Your Website GDPR Compliant
There is a straightforward reason GDPR keeps legal teams awake at night: fines can reach £17,500,000 or 4% of global annual revenue, whichever is higher.…
Understanding SQL Injection and How to Prevent Attacks
SQL injection, also known as SQLi, is a technique that targets websites and apps using SQL databases. It works by inserting SQL code into a…
Understanding SSRF: Abusing Server Trust from the Inside Out
In our daily interactions online, trust is a fundamental currency. We trust servers to handle our data, process our requests, and reliably deliver content. But…
Understanding CSRF: Cross-site Request Forgery Explained
Cross-Site Request Forgery, often called CSRF (or its other nicknames, Session Riding and XSRF), is a tricky type of attack. In short, it lets attackers…
MTR For Website Troubleshooting
Justin Daniel Let’s set the scene: You go to visit a website and you get a “connection timed out” error. Is this a browser, internet, firewall, or…
Easy Guide to Saving HAR Files and Console Logs for Troubleshooting
Maninder Toor When something goes wrong with a website – whether it is a broken design, slow performance, shows an error message or something else, it is…
Understanding FTP and SFTP: A Guide to Secure File Transfers
Updating your website means getting files to your server, but the process can feel like a chore when simply navigating in a conventional hosting panel.…