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 to better support their families, capitalize on time at home, and maximize earning potential. The follow up questions to these assertions could be: “How do you come to that conclusion?Read […]
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RSS feed for this sectionCommon Website Security Terminology Defined
If you want to keep your website safe, it is important to understand the terminology used to describe the causes and effects of hacks. Software vulnerabilities and access control issues are two of the main causes of website infections, and in this post we will define some of the terminology used to describe them. WeRead […]
Welcome UK2 Group!
Today we are thrilled to welcome UK2 Group as a CloudFlare partner. Customers of UK2 Group (including its brands UK2.net, Midphase, and Westhost) are now able to access CloudFlare’s web performance and security solutions with a single click. Backed by CloudFlare, UK2 Group’s customers can now protect their websites against security threats, ensure only clean […]
Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm
Here at Sucuri we suspect everything, especially when your friends start to share content written in another language with clickbait headlines. If you are not familiar with the term, clickbait is when web content is created in a way that psychologically exploits the reader’s curiosity using compelling headlines. When someone clicks on the article toRead […]
Check out these brand new videos on how to optimize CloudFlare
Someone once said that the best things in life are free and I can’t agree more. I want to draw the attention of the CloudFlare community to a great resource that helps maximize the value of our product. Troy Hunt, an experienced trainer and blogger, has produced a video course on using CloudFlare. The video […]
How to build your own public key infrastructure
A major part of securing a network as geographically diverse as CloudFlare’s is protecting data as it travels between datacenters. Customer data and logs are important to protect but so is all the control data that our applications use to communicate with each other. For example, our application servers need to securely communicate with our […]
Magento Platform Targeted By Credit Card Scrapers
We’ve been writing a lot about E-Commerce hacks and PCI Compliance recently. The more people buy things online, the more of an issue this will be come and the more important it will be to talk about it. We live in an online world where a single mistake can lead to catastrophic results; that impact isRead […]
Websites Hacked Via Website Backups
The past few months we’ve been spending a good deal of time talking about backups. This is for good reason, they are often your safety net when things go wrong; interestingly enough though, they are often the forgotten pillar of security. It’s why we spent some time thinking through what a good backup strategy mightRead […]
EFF, CloudFlare Ask Federal Court Not To Force Internet Companies To Enforce Music Labels’ Trademarks
This blog was originally posted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation who is represents CloudFlare in this case. JUNE 18, 2015 | BY MITCH STOLTZ This month, CloudFlare and EFF pushed back against major music labels’ latest strategy to force Internet infrastructure companies like CloudFlare to become trademark and copyright enforcers, by challenging a broad court […]
10 Tips to Improve Your Website Security
In recent years there has been a proliferation of great tools and services in the web development space. Content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal and so many other allow business owners to quickly and efficiently build their online presences. Their highly extensible architectures, rich plugin, module, extension ecosystem have made it easier thanRead […]
