https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/public/ recent bookmarks from guardiantech 2014-07-01T21:21:15+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/wordpress-plugin-with-1-7-million-downloads-puts-sites-at-risk-of-takeover/ guardiantechWebsites that run WordPress and MailPoet, a plugin with more than 1.7 million downloads, are susceptible to hacks that give attackers almost complete control, researchers have warned. "If you have this plugin activated on your website, the odds are not in your favor," Daniel Cid, CTO of security firm Sucuri, warned in a blog post published Tuesday. "An attacker can exploit this vulnerability without having any privileges/accounts on the target site. This is a major threat, it means every single website using it is vulnerable."]]> wordpress security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:9375bf394d5a/ 2013-05-07T14:01:51+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/huge-attack-on-wordpress-sites-could-spawn-never-before-seen-super-botnet/ guardiantech blog botnet security wordpress https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:628f988f5600/ 2012-03-08T07:06:42+00:00 http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/microsoft-windows/viruses-spyware-and-other-nasties/news/415949 guardiantechSecurity researchers are warning that some 30,000 WordPress websites, 85% of them based in the US, have been compromised by a mass-injection hijack attack which sees visitors to any of more than 200,000 individual pages redirected to a Trojan infected rogue AV scam. Look for code linking to a script from rr.nu.]]> wordpress security malware https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:d11d6a772a48/ 2011-10-31T21:52:51+00:00 http://kevtownsend.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/problem-in-wordpress-%e2%80%93-bigger-problem-in-doing-something-about-it/ guardiantech wordpress vulnerability security https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:c65623957f73/ 2011-10-05T20:16:45+00:00 http://puffbox.com/2011/10/04/gds-defends-bespoke-approach/ guardiantech charlesarthur wordpress drupal opensource https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:f66ddfd7e37c/ 2011-08-02T21:26:21+00:00 http://markmaunder.com/2011/zero-day-vulnerability-in-many-wordpress-themes/ guardiantech charlesarthur security wordpress https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:3118c224c2eb/ 2011-04-14T05:23:51+00:00 http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/security/ guardiantech
It's getting simpler to count the sites that haven't had break-ins.]]> charlesarthur wordpress security hacking https://pinboard.in/u:guardiantech/b:dfa694406719/