Website Security News
At Sucuri, we’re often asked how website owners and webmasters can secure their websites. However, advice can often be too broad; different content management systems (CMS) exist in this ecosystem and each require a unique security configuration. That’s exactly why the Sucuri Firewall contains an…
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A frustrating interruption to anyone’s day is the infamous 500 internal server error. When it happens not only do you lose traffic or potential site revenue, but it can also…
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Have you ever looked at your server or website logs and realized that they make absolutely no sense to you? Or thought that logs just seem to take up a…
Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan…
During a recent investigation into a compromised Magento ecommerce environment, we discovered the presence of five different backdoors that would provide attackers with code execution capabilities. The techniques used by…
Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors and website owners to malicious…
What is a server side scanner? When it comes to the ABCs of website security server side scans and file integrity monitoring are the “A” and “B”. In fact, a…
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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…
In an effort to maintain unauthorized access or profit off a website’s environment long after an initial compromise, attackers commonly leverage a variety of different techniques and tactics. These techniques…
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…
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Not all SSL configurations on websites are equal, and a growing number push for HTTPS everywhere. There is an increasing demand to check and quantify that little padlock in your…
