Google published its State of Website Security in 2016 today, reporting that there was a 32 percent increase in the number of hacked sites in 2016 compared to 2015. Google added that it doesn’t expect the trend to slow down anytime soon. Google said that these hackers are getting even “more aggressive,” and at the…
Please note, none of our clients are vulnerable to the following security issue In the past few days WordPress has bene suffering from a serious security breach. Securi, a specialist website security company identified a severe content injection (privilege escalation) vulnerability affecting the REST API. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated user to modify the content…
Google has announced that it is to boost its Safe Browsing programme by flagging sites which have been repeatedly listed as serving malicious code, unwanted programs, or hosting social engineering content. Launched in 2005, Google’s Safe Browsing system checks crawled websites for a range of malicious content ranging from malware and viruses to ‘phishing’ pages…
Following our blog post about the security issues related to WordPress we thought it would be good to list some of the backup options available to WordPress users. Taking backups of your site is probably the single most important thing you can do with a website, we have had to deal with countless situations where…
Cases of high profile hacks appear to have grown exponentially over recent years and even the largest companies have been victim to major hacks. The following are just some of the major hacks of 2014: ICANN Hacking – ICANN’s announcement of the incident. Sony Hacking – An excellent Analysis of the event from the beginning. Home Depot –…
Sites developed with WordPress have been under attack from a botnet of tens of thousands of computers for the past week. The botnet is using a brute force attack on the admin users to try and gain access to the sites administration. Once within the administration the hackers will be able to insert malicious code…
BBC recently did an undercover story uncovering some unscrupulous individuals selling valid UK credit card details. While this is not particularly unusual by itself it turns out the source of the cards was linked to Symantec. The cards details were all acquired after users had just bought Norton subscriptions. A criminal gang selling UK…