Website Security News
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 process by providing a clean code base to compare the current site state to. However,…
On a daily basis at Sucuri, we hear things like: “My host takes care of my website security.” “I have never been hacked, so why should I care?” Or here’s…
Read More about Who is Responsible for the Security of Your Website?
Imagine waking up in the morning to see that a couple of calls were missed and your email is overloaded with messages saying that your website is down. You go…
If you are doing website development and have a local repository, or store website backups on your computer, you should strongly consider encrypting these sensitive files. In the event that…
Read More about Using a VeraCrypt File Container to Encrypt Local Website Files
Earlier this week we wrote about how to use command line tools to back up your website. Check out our previous article for details on how we create these backups….
Read More about How to Restore Website Backups from the Command Line
Creating website backups should be one of the most important recurring tasks for a website administrator, and yet backups are often forgotten when thinking about website security. Creating backups using…
Read More about How to Create Website Backups Using Command-line Tools
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…
Read More about Learning From Buggy WordPress Wp-login Malware
Recently I had the good fortune of being able to present at Wordcamp Vancouver 2015. My presentation was titled ‘Why Security Matters‘ and I mentioned website backups several times. One…
Welcome to our second post in the series on WP-CLI for WordPress management over SSH. In our previous post, we discussed how to get your SSH credentials and use WP-CLI to…
Read More about WP-CLI Guide: Secure WordPress Backup and Update
For the past few months, we’ve spent a good deal of time talking about backups. This is for good reason: backups are your safety net when things go wrong. Interestingly…
We’ve all heard it a million times before – backups are important. Still, the reality is that even today, a website backup strategy remains one of the most overlooked and…
