Over the last year, cybercriminals increased their use of social engineering, scaling up people-centred threats and attacks that rely on human interaction and dialled down the automated exploits. Founding new ways to exploit “the human factor” — the instincts of curiosity and trust that lead well-intentioned people to click, divulge,…
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When you enlist our EUROPEAN EMERGENCY WordPress Services team to run disaster audits, it’s important to determine which solutions and processes we’re using to actively identify threats. After all, disaster audits (WordPress hack removal, WordPress deface removal) are reactive efforts to detect persistent threats that have evaded existing security controls….
WordPress 4.9.7 is now available. This is a privacy and maintenance release, that fixes 17 bugs. We encourage you to update your sites to take advantage of the new privacy features. From the WordPress 4.9.7 release post, WordPress versions 4.9.6 and earlier (detailed in our post here: 2 WORDPRESS CORE VULNERABILITIES…
The complete guide for your very own PORT MONITORING contains the foundation tasks to implement a decent PORT MONITORING strategy with the additional why, how, tips & tricks and step-by-step walkthrough with pictures, to serve as visual aids. Let’s start with: WHAT IS A PORT? In computer networking, a port…
The complete guide for your very own LANDING PAGE MONITORING contains the foundation tasks to implement a decent LANDING PAGE MONITORING strategy with the additional why, how, tips & tricks and step-by-step walkthrough with pictures, to serve as visual aids. Let’s start with: WHAT IS A LANDING PAGE? A landing…
For your WP Security, be informed about the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins: Redirection Authenticated Local File Inclusion reported by Ryan (Dewhurst Security). ACE via file inclusion in Redirection allows admins to execute any PHP file in the filesystem. If you are logged in as an administrator on any site…
For your WordPress protection, be informed about the NEW UNPATCHED WordPress Core vulnerability. Publicly known since its first official report on June 26, 2018 or it’s official disclosure 7 months ago. All versions of WordPress starting with the latest 4.9.6 and below have the Authenticated Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability. WordPress…