Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been appointed as a cyber security advisor for the President-elect Donald Trump, but it appears that he never actually checked the security defenses of his own company’s website.

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Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been appointed as a cyber security advisor for the President-elect Donald Trump, but it appears that he never actually checked the security defenses of his own company’s website.

Giuliani is going to … Continue reading Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Joomla vulnerability can be exploited to hijack sites, so patch now!

If you’re running a website on Joomla, you should update to the newly released 3.6.5 version as soon as possible – or risk your site being hijacked. The newest version of the popular CMS has been released on Tuesday (December 13), and it fixes three vulnerabilities, several bugs, and includes a number of new security hardening mechanisms. Among the fixed vulnerabilities is one (CVE-2016-9838) that is especially dangerous, as it could allow attackers to take … More Continue reading Joomla vulnerability can be exploited to hijack sites, so patch now!

Joomla Joomla! Two Critical Flaws Discovered — Update to Protect Your Site

Joomla – the world’s second popular open source Content Management System (CMS) software packages, has just released the latest version of its CMS, which includes patches for two critical security vulnerabilities and a bug fix.
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The two critical flaws, both exist in the Joomla Core functionalities, include Account Creation Vulnerability (CVE-2016-8870) and Elevated Privileges

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Compromised Joomla sites are foisting ransomware on visitors

Administrators of WP and Joomla sites would do well to check for specific fake analytics code injected into their properties, as a ransomware delivery campaign taking advantage of vulnerable sites has been going strong for over a month now. Sucuri researchers began warning about the “Realstatistics” malware campaign two weeks ago, and dated it back to June 6 (at least). The name of the campaign was derived from the name of the domains used by … More Continue reading Compromised Joomla sites are foisting ransomware on visitors

Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations

Avast is warning about a longstanding black hat SEO campaign involving sites running hacked WordPress and Joomla installations. In this latest campaign, the attackers inject a fake jQuery script into the head section of the websites, so that it goes unnoticed by random visitors (unless they check out the source code and know enough to spot it). The script loads 10 milliseconds after a visitor lands on a compromised site/page, and it injects links inside … More Continue reading Black hat SEO campaign targets WordPress and Joomla installations