Have you ever heard of the term Payment Card Industry (PCI)? Specifically, PCI compliance? If you have an e-commerce website, you probably have already heard about it. But do you really understand what it means for you and your online business? In this series, we will try to explain the PCI standard and how it […]
Tag Archives: Website Security
WordPress Malware Causes Psuedo-Darkleech Infection
Source: The National Archives (UK) Darkleech is a nasty malware infection that infects web servers at the root level. It use malicious Apache modules to add hidden iFrames to certain responses. It’s difficult to detect because the malware is only active when both server and site admins are not logged in, and the iFrame is […]
Why Website Reinfections Happen
I joined Sucuri a little over a month ago. My job is actually as a Social Media Specialist, but we have this process where regardless of your job you have to learn what website infections look like and more importantly, how to clean them. It’s this idea that regardless of you are you must always […]
The Impacts of a Hacked Website
Today, with the proliferation of open-source technologies like WordPress, Joomla! and other Content Management Systems (CMS) people around the world are able to quickly establish a virtual presence with little to no cost. In the process however, a lot is being lost in terms of what it means to own a website. We are failing […]
Why A Free Obfuscator Is Not Always Free.
We all love our code but some of us love it so much that we don’t want anyone else to read or understand it. When you think about it, that’s understandable – hours and hours of hard dev work, days of testing and weeks (months?, years?) of fixing bugs and after all of this, someone […]
Why Websites Get Hacked
I spend a good amount of time engaging with website owners across a broad spectrum of businesses. Interestingly enough, unless I’m talking large enterprise, there is a common question that often comes up: Why would anyone ever hack my website? Depending on who you are, the answer to this can vary. Nonetheless, it often revolves […]
Vulnerability Disclosures – A Note To Developers
This post is entirely for developers. Feel free to read, but approach it with that in mind. There is no such thing as bug-free code, and any code, even the most secure, can, with time, can be used for nefarious actions. We ourselves find weaknesses in our code, internally and externally, and have to work […]
The Dynamics of Passwords
How often do you think about the passwords you’re using? Not only for your website, but also for everything else you do on the internet on a daily basis? Are you re-using any of the same passwords to make it easier to remember them? We see it all too often: weak passwords used for FTP, […]
Analyzing Malicious Redirects in the IP.Board CMS
Although the majority of our posts describe WordPress and Joomla attacks (no wonder, given their market-share), there are still attacks that target smaller CMS’s and we help clean all kinds of sites. This post will be about conditional redirects in IP.Board forums (currently #27 with 0.3% of the CMS market). Conditional redirects The symptoms of […]
Creative Evasion Technique Against Website Firewalls
During one of our recent in-house Capture The Flag (CTF) events, I was playing with the idea of what could be done with Non-Breaking Spaces. I really wanted to win and surely there had to be a way through the existing evasion controls. This post is going to be a bit code-heavy for most end-users, […]
