A new take on those symbols! 8 Keys to Creating More Meaningful Content by Barry Feldman Hello ! @ # $ % ^ & * I was staring at my keyboard when I got the idea for this post. And there they were, right in front of my eyes and at my fingertips: eight keys […]
Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of the time this involves injecting hundreds of spam links into the site’s database but in this case a deceptive, fake plugin called mobile-shortcuts was able […]
DNSSEC Done Right
This blog post is probably more personal than the usual posts here. It’s about why I joined CloudFlare. I’ve been working on DNSSEC evolution for a long time as implementor, IETF working group chair, protocol experimenter, DNS operator, consultant, and evangelist. These different perspectives allow me to look at the protocol in a holistic way. […]
How to Use Google Webmaster Tools to Improve Your Website
Don’t have any idea what Google Webmaster tools can do for you? Here is a good article from Elegant Themes that explains the things that you need to know. How to Use Google Webmaster Tools to Improve Your Website by Brenda Barron Google has been collecting data about websites for a long time. They use […]
Critical “GHOST” Vulnerability Released
A very critical vulnerability affecting the GNU C Library (glibc) is threatening Linux servers for a remote command execution. This security bug was discovered by Qualys security researchers and will probably cause a lot of headaches to those who won’t update right away. Where does the issue come from? This is a buffer overflow issue in glibc’s function __nss_hostname_digits_dots(), which is […]
DDoS from China – Facebook, WordPress and Twitter Users Receiving Sucuri Error Pages
Over the past few weeks, our Security Operation Center (SOC) has been seeing some different, and very suspicious requests to some of our servers. At first we thought it was a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, mainly due to the high concentration of requests (thousands per second). Looking further however, it actually seemed like […]
How to Block a WordPress User Without Deleting Their Account
Here is another trick that you can add in you arsenal. How to Block a WordPress User Without Deleting Their Account Did you ever want to block a user from logging into WordPress? The simplest way to accomplish this is by deleting the user profile. The downside is that will move all content written by […]
16 Plugins to Help You Communicate With Your Users
by Rachel McColli A website is a communications tool. You create one to communicate with visitors, and to give them somewhere they can communicate with you. Whether your site is for blogging, marketing, selling, fundraising or passing on information, one of your key concerns will be making sure you can communicate with your visitors to […]
Security Advisory – Vulnerabilities in Pagelines/Platform theme for WordPress
Advisory for: Pagelines and Platform Themes Security Risk: Very High Exploitation level: Easy/Remote DREAD Score: 9/10 Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation / Remote Code Execution Patched Version: 1.4.6 Users of both the Pagelines and Platform themes should update as soon as possible. During a routine audit for our WAF, we found two dangerous issues: A Privilege Escalation vulnerability affecting […]
How to Display Most Commented Posts in WordPress
Showing the most commented posts on your site allows you to know which topic attracts most people to your site. We hope you find this tutorial from WPBeginner helpful.
