“We should rename SEO indicate relevance,” says Andy @Crestodia, the content chemist.” The article below is an interview with Andy Crestodina. He is the Strategic Director for Orbit and he has provided web strategy advice to more than 1000 businesses over the last 12 years. Andy loves to teach web marketing, both as a public […]
SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites
This Sunday has started with a bang. Google has blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru: Google Blacklisting – SoakSoak.ru Our analysis is showing impacts in the order of 100’s of thousands of WordPress specific websites. We cannot confirm the exact vector, but preliminary analysis is showing correlation with the Revslider […]
Malvertising on a Website Without Ads
When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest state. Unless ofcourse the server was previously compromised, which in it of itself is another conversation outright. Barring that one instance, the new website should not exhibit any malicious behavior. […]
Targeted Phishing Against GoDaddy Customers
I do get a lot of phishing emails, we all do, but as security professionals we tend to recognize them immediately. Either the syntax is wrong, or it’s missing a name. When you get them from a bank you don’t even deal with that’s a pretty good clue. However, when the phishing is well done […]
How to Improve Your Writing Skills
I am a frustrated writer. I still am but I’m working on it. Continuously looking for ways to better myself in different ways. Good thing there are lots of materials out there that points us in the right direction. Here’s an article that I hope helps you too. How to Improve Your Writing Skills Five […]
Critical Vulnerability in Joomla! HD FLV Player Plugin
We’ve been notified of a critical vulnerability affecting the HD FLV Player plugin for Joomla!, WordPress and custom websites. It was silently patched only Joomla! and WordPress, leaving the custom website version vulnerable. Furthermore, websites running this plugin are also at risk of being abused to send spam emails, an issue which wasn’t fixed in […]
IIS, Compromised GoDaddy Servers, and Cyber Monday Spam
While doing an analysis of one black-hat SEO doorway on a hacked site, I noticed that it linked to many similar doorways on other websites, and all those websites were on IIS servers. When I see these patterns, I try to dig deeper and figure out what else those websites have in common. This time […]
Leveraging the WordPress Platform for SPAM
We’ve all seen WordPress comment and pingback spam, but thanks to strict moderation regimes and brilliant WordPress plugins that focus strictly on SPAM comments, comment spam isn’t a major problem for most websites these days. I have seen however, a new trend starting to emerge when it comes to spam involving WordPress. In recent years […]
WordPress Plugins to Streamline Your Business
Nowadays, most businesses rely on the internet to widen the range of people that they can reach. And to make others aware of the services that they offer. The article below is a good source of ideas for business owners that want to streamline their online business. How to Use WordPress Plugins to Streamline Your […]
Lima, Peru: CloudFlare’s 29th data center
Just when you thought we’d reached the end, CloudFlare’s Latin America data center expansion continues. Hot on the heels of our recent expansion into Santiago, São Paulo, and Medellin, this holiday season commences in Lima with our 29th data center globally, and our fourth in Latin America. Latin America is the fastest growing source of […]
