This post was put together in collaboration with one of our Support Engineers, Bruno Borges. Be sure to take a minute and say thanks for the info, he loves twitter (when its up). It seems every day we’re combating malicious redirections. Often, they are simple, but everyday they are evolving, and in some instances become [...]
Website Malware Removal – WordPress Tips & Tricks
July 19, 2012 by 1 Comment
We often write posts that give you advice and recommendations around how to harden your websites, and have only recently begun to give advice on ways to navigate your backend and remove infections via terminal. But what about all the basics? That’s what I want to cover in this post. All those things that you should know [...]
Website Malware Removal – Blackhole Exploit
July 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Here is a quick little write up on how to to deal with one, of many variations, of the Blackhole Exploit. The Infection If you scan your site using Sucuri SiteCheck and find yourself with a result that looks like this: Then you are dealing with an infection that is facilitated through the use of [...]
Google Blacklist Warning: Something’s Not Right Here!
July 5, 2012 by 1 Comment
Google recently put out a post talking to the past 5 years offering the Safe Browsing program and summarized in a post titled: Google Safe Browsing Program 5 Years Old – Been Blacklisted Lately? This got us thinking about the number of Google warnings end-users see every day, and naturally we couldn’t help but take [...]
How To: Lock Your Site by Enabling a Second Layer of Authentication
June 25, 2012 by
I put together a post this weekend about my personal experience installing a WordPress site on a clean Server. In the process of hardening the administration panel I found myself doing something that I don’t see discussed much – enabling Basic Access Authentication. That got me thinking about a putting together this post which will [...]
Understanding Conditional Malware – IP Centric Variation
June 21, 2012 by
In today’s web malware landscape you can’t help but take a minute to familiarize yourself with a concept known as conditional malware. As implied in the name, it’s malware that only works when specific rules are met. Those rules can range from specific IP ranges to time of day. They are very tricky and as [...]
How To: Stop The Hacker By Hardening WordPress
June 19, 2012 by
Every day we service 100′s of clients and the question is always asked: How do you stop these hackers!!!” Unfortunately, it’s perhaps the hardest to explain and understand for most. That being said, this post will be one of a series that talks to what end-users can do to help reduce their threat landscape. This [...]
How To: Lock Down WordPress Admin Panel With a Dynamic IP
June 15, 2012 by
There is often a lot of discussion around locking down access to WP-ADMIN and WP-Login.php, specially around restricting it by IP. The issues and retort that often comes up is, “but what if I have a dynamic IP?” Right away the response from folks is, “oh, well then this won’t work for me.” It didn’t [...]
