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Imagine waking up in the morning to see that a couple of calls were missed and your email is overloaded with messages saying that your website is down. You go to your computer to check your server and it’s working fine – but oh no, a… Continue reading The Importance of Website Backups
Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are unforgiving. They test the limits of your web server and application resources by sending spikes of fake traffic to your website. It is also notoriously difficult to conduct … Continue reading How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I
This is the second post of a series about Steps to Keep Your Site Clean. In the first post, we talked about Access Points; here we are going to offer more insight on Updates.
Updates
Repeatedly we see websites being infected or reinfected when im… Continue reading Steps to Keep Your Site Clean: Updates
As a website owner, it’s a good idea to be aware of the security issues that might affect your site. For example, Cross-site Scripting (XSS) attacks consist of injecting malicious client-side scripts into a website and using the website as a pro… Continue reading Content Security Policy
If you want to make your website security more robust, you need to think about hardening. To harden your website means to add different layers of protection to reduce the potential attack surface. Hardening often involves manual measures of adding cod… Continue reading What is Virtual Hardening?
Unfortunately, most website owners know what it’s like to have a site hacked – the panic, the rush to find anyone out there that can help, and the worry it causes. Maybe you were able to get your site back on track or had a company clean t… Continue reading Steps to Keep Your Site Clean: Access Points
Last year, we introduced the theme of Securing an Online Store. We talked about how to identify the potential risks and what to look out for. These principles can help in satisfying PCI DSS requirements 8 & 10:
Requirement 8 – Identify… Continue reading Intro to Securing an Online Store – Part 2
Last week, we explained what zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks are. Essentially, zero-day vulnerabilities exist in the wild, with no patch available to prevent hackers from exploiting it. Today, we would like to expand on the impacts of these attac… Continue reading The Impacts of Zero-Day Attacks
Last week, we explained what zero-day vulnerabilities and attacks are. Essentially, zero-day vulnerabilities exist in the wild, with no patch available to prevent hackers from exploiting it. Today, we would like to expand on the impacts of these attac… Continue reading The Impacts of Zero-Day Attacks
In computer science, a vulnerability is considered to be a zero-day vulnerability if it’s unknown to all parties interested in patching it, such as:
The team maintaining the project
The users of the project
Vulnerability researchers
Vulnerabil… Continue reading Understanding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities & Attacks