by Sijin George | Nov 17, 2018 | Server Administration, WordPress
WordPress attacks increased by 74% from last year! This alarming rate of website attacks mainly happen when the WordPress installation do not follow proper security practices. And one of the common ways to hack such websites is by “WordPress XMLRPC...
by Reeshma Mathews | Sep 7, 2017 | Server Administration, VPN, WordPress
WordPress powers 19% of the web, and 48 of the top 100 blog sites online. With a strong community of users and developers, the WordPress platform is evolving day by day, with more features and Add-ons. This, in turn, poses some threats as well. Vulnerabilities and...
by Visakh S | Aug 24, 2016 | Server Administration, WordPress
If your website runs on WordPress v4.5.3 website, attackers can now bring down your site through a Denial of Service attack. This is possible through two vulnerabilities that were disclosed on 22nd Aug: CVE-2016-6897 – This is a Cross Site Request Forgery...
by Visakh S | Sep 28, 2015 | Server Management
Linux servers have a great set of open source anti-malware tools like Linux Malware Detect, ClamAV + SaneSecurity, etc. These tools do a good job in identifying the vast majority of malware that’s out there. However, they still need a bit of time to create...
by Visakh S | Sep 23, 2015 | Server Administration
On 18th Sep, Sucuri reported a sudden spike in the number of WordPress, Joomla and other CMS sites infected with the now infamous visitorTracker_isMob malware code. Using a malware signature published by Linux Malware Detect, we were able to secure all servers under...
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