A couple of weeks ago, the Sucuri team was at HostingCon. We rubbed elbows with the people who bring your websites to the world and spoke at length with them about the importance of website security. However, the most interesting conversation we had over the whole week was with a small business owner on vacation […]
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Phishing Tale: An Analysis of an Email Phishing Scam
Phishing scams are always bad news, and in light of the Google Drive scam that made the rounds again last week, we thought we’d tell the story of some spam that was delivered into my own inbox because even security researchers, with well though-out email block rules, still get SPAM in our inboxes from time […]
Ad Violations: Why Search Engines Won’t Display Your Site If it’s Infected With Malware
As your site’s webmaster, have you ever seen an e-mail from Google like this: Hello, We wanted to alert you that one of your sites violates our advertising policies. Therefore, we won’t be able to run any of your ads that link to that site, and any new ads pointing to that site will also […]
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 […]