About a week ago we got an interesting Zencart case. Being that we don’t often write about Zencart we figured it’d be good time to share the case and details on what we found. The Scenario The site was redirecting to “www .promgirl .de”. I know, not very unique. Additionally, it was only affecting “www” […]
Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or maybe you were just too lazy? Yeah, good times. Well, it seems like some companies are trying to end this problem. They are offering services where clients pay them to […]
Introducing Strict SSL: Protecting Against a Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Origin Traffic
At CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve the security of our customers’ websites. One of the features we provide is the ability to serve their website encrypted over SSL/TLS. Today we are announcing a new feature to help make encryption on the web safer and more secure: Full SSL (Strict). With strict […]
Fighting back responsibly
Today on The Day We Fight Back, companies are coming together to protest the NSA’s mass surveillance programs. CloudFlare is proud to be one of those companies. We are taking a stand and proclaiming that “we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action.” Set Boundaries with […]
Joomla JomSocial Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The JomSocial team just released an update that fixes a very serious remote code execution vulnerability that affects any JomSocial version older than 3.1.0.4. From their hot-fix update: Yesterday we released version 3.1.0.4 which fixes two vulnerabilities. As a result of the first vulnerability, our own site was hacked. Thankfully, our security experts spotted the […]
Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics
This post is about how hackers abuse popular web services, and how this helps security researchers obtain interesting statistics about malware attacks. We, at Sucuri, work with infected websites every day. While we see some particular infections on one site or on multiple sites, we can’t accurately tell how many more sites out there are […]
Participate in the Day We Fight Back with One Click
At CloudFlare, we’re fiercely committed to an open internet. That’s why we’re announcing a new app that lets you easily add to your website a banner from The Day We Fight Back. The DayWeFightBack.org has organized a protest against mass surveillance set for Tuesday, February 11th. The banner that your visitors would see urges them […]
Layer 7 DDOS – Blocking HTTP Flood Attacks
There are many types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that can affect and bring down a website, and they vary in complexity and size. The most well known attacks are the good old syn-flood, followed by the Layer 3/4 UDP and DNS amplification attacks. Today though, we’re going to spend a little time […]
Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking
Corporations get hacked all the time. This is not news to anyone in the security business, but it has certainly received a lot of attention from those in the media over the last few weeks because of a couple of large-scale credit card events at both Target and Neiman Marcus. For the average person, website […]
New iFrame Injections Leverage PNG Image Metadata
We’re always trying to stay ahead of the latest trends, and today we caught a very interesting one that we have either been missing, or it’s new. We’ll just say it’s new.. We’re all familiar with the idea of iFrame Injections, right? Understanding an iFrame Injection The iFrame HTML tag is very standard today, it’s […]
