Much of the web continues to march towards creating secure communications between devices through the use of things like HTTPS/TLS (aka SSL). We’ve seen Google t … [Read more...]
Ask Sucuri: What is an XSS Vulnerability?
Question: What is an XSS vulnerability? Should I be concerned about an XSS vulnerability? XSS (short for Cross-Site Scripting) is a widespread vulnerability … [Read more...]
Ask Sucuri: How Does Sucuri Clean a Website?
Question: How does Sucuri clean hacked websites? What is the process? We clean a lot of websites, ~ 400 / 500, daily during our normal load. To understand how w … [Read more...]
The Risks of Hiring a Bad SEO Company
Today we are not going to explore malware or any other overtly malicious traffic. Instead this post is a warning about dishonest marketing tactics used by … [Read more...]
Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
We are no strangers to Blackhat SEO techniques, we’ve actually spent a great deal of time working and sharing various bits of information related to Blackhat S … [Read more...]
Ask Sucuri: How to Create Website Backups?
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 ba … [Read more...]
FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic
Every once in a while we get a case that makes us dig deep to find answers. We have spoken before about the trouble with forensics and reasons why websites get … [Read more...]
Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam
Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your c … [Read more...]
WP-CLI Guide: Connect to WordPress via SSH Intro
Do you use the WordPress dashboard to update plugins and themes? How do you back up your database? If you have not used it yet, WP-CLI is an efficient way to … [Read more...]
10 Years of Joomla! – Supporting JoomlaDay Minnesota
As Joomla prepares to celebrate its 10 year anniversary, we want to be certain to join in the festivities. Why? Because open source platforms allow individuals … [Read more...]
