Posts Tagged ‘Vulnerabilities And Malware’
Black Hole Exploit Kit 2.0 Released
If you’re not aware, there are number of kits available to crackers intent on causing your website harm. And NO, not all crackers are created equal. There are those that are developing and creating their own infections and then there are those that leverage the infections being developed. Today, one of the most prevalent kits…
Read MoreGetting to Know Stuxnet
While monitoring the malware feeds today someone rehashed an article that described how Stuxnet had been deciphered by InfoSec professionals back in 2011. Although the article is exceptionally long, for InfoSec types its very interesting and informative. If you have any inclination to better understand how malware works this is an excellent article. What I…
Read MoreFacebook Malware SPAM Chats
To family friends, most of you likely live on Facebook sharing all your awesome details and humorous rants, but please surf Facebook cautiously. I’ve been monitoring the interwebs for a few days and have been seeing a lot of discussion on SPAM bots distributing malware via Facebook emails, Sopho’s reported on it as well, but…
Read MoreDNSChanger Malware: Verifying You Are Clean
There has been a lot of buzz this week about the DNSChanger malware, I wanted to take a minute to summarize it for my friends and family. History If you’re curious what this is and why it is so important then read this section. What’s important to note is that DNSChanger is a type of…
Read MoreReview of the WordPress AntiVirus Plugin – Effective or Not?
After my most recent Review of the WordPress WordFence Plugin post I felt it was only fair that I take time to review the effectiveness of other similar security focused plugins in the WordPress.org repository. It’s important to understand that while I work for an InfoSec company my focus is not on whether its a…
Read MoreReview of the WordFence Plugin – Effective or Not?
As of late I have been seeing a lot of traffic on various mediums, WordPress.org, Twitter, and Facebook about this new plugin – WordFence. It hasn’t been around for too long I don’t think, maybe 6 months or so, and I have been getting a lot of questions around its effectiveness, etc… I get this…
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