Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can disrupt website traffic and impact any business. To help website owners and webmasters improve their website resilience to DDoS attacks, we have put together a series of posts. Here are the topics that will be discussed: Website optimization best practices Caching best practices Web Application Firewall (WAF) protection Setup Optimization […]
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Improvements to SiteCheck Website Scanner
SiteCheck is Sucuri’s free website malware and security scanner offered to anyone who wants to scan their websites for malware and blacklist status. Last year, we improved SiteCheck’s speed and reliability. Today, we are excited to share the latest upgrades that makes SiteCheck even better. SiteCheck Upgrades As one of our first free tools created, SiteCheck has […]
OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part V
To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists of the 10 most seen application vulnerabilities: Injection Broken Authentication Sensitive data exposure XML External Entities (XXE) Broken Access control Security misconfigurations Cross Site Scripting […]
Free SuperCounters Widget Serves Unwanted Redirects to Dating Site
If we navigate way back into the recesses of our memory to the era of GeoCities websites and MySpace pages, we might distinctly recollect the popularity of the visitor-counting widget. Commonly displayed on homepages across the web, these widgets served as credibility indicators to help site visitors identify the popularity of a website. While this […]
How to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part III – WAF
In the first post of this series, we talked about the practices that will optimize your site and increase its resilience to DDoS attacks. In the second post, we focused on caching best practices that can reduce the chances of a DDoS attack taking down your site. Today, we are going to emphasize the importance […]
OWASP Top 10 Security Risks – Part IV
To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists of the 10 most seen application vulnerabilities: Injection Broken Authentication Sensitive data exposure XML External Entities (XXE) Broken Access control Security misconfigurations Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Insecure […]
How to Prevent Cross-Site Contamination for Beginners
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in daycare catching the flu, next thing you know, everybody in the family has it as well. The same happens with websites. A site can be negatively affected by neighboring sites […]
New Year Tips from Security Professionals
Have you included website security as a part of your new year’s resolutions for 2019? Here is a quick retrospective on tips some of our team members shared with us throughout the year. The cost for neglecting security is 10 times greater than the effort to keep it safe. Your brand value takes 10 times […]
My Website Was Hacked on Christmas Eve
Christmas is a wonderful time to spend with family and friends. A lot of kids look forward to opening their presents under the Christmas tree, but not all of them have a present to open. This is why our family started a charity project in 2007 called the Shoebox Project. A few years later, my […]
Sucuri Named December 2018 Gartner Customers’ Choice for Web Application Firewalls
The Sucuri team is excited to announce that we have been recognized as a December 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for the Sucuri Firewall. Our team takes great pride in this distinction, as customer feedback continues to shape our products and services. In its announcement, Gartner explains, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is […]
