Security and Vulnerabilities Category

Databases are the foundation for data storage, and backups are the foundation for disaster recovery should your database be compromised and data integrity ruined. For some cyber-attacks or hardware outages, the only way to return the business to operational performance is to restore data from a previous state. When this catastrophe happens, it’s time to […]

Developers that build web applications know that many factors go into protecting a site from hackers. Whitelisting input, ensuring proper authentication features, and building frontend and backend code that checks for certain attacks are just a few ways developers can protect web applications, but using web server headers are also an effective way of protecting […]

Another phishing campaign that is attempting to have you provide your cPanel log in credentials.

When typing letters on a computer, you recognize characters based on the way they display, but computers recognize characters based on ones and zeros (binary). Every character you see on the screen has a matching Unicode reference, and some of these characters look the same in different languages, even though they have different Unicode references. […]

A popular plugin for WordPress, Contact Form 7, in use on over 5 million installations, had a vulnerability announced yesterday. This is very easily exploited and ensure you’ve updated to version 5.3.2 immediately.

Cookies have been an integral part of the internet since the early 1990s, but excessive use of these text files presented vulnerabilities used to perform malicious activity, mainly cross-site-request forgery (CSRF) attacks. CSRF exploits based on cookie vulnerabilities are mainly from the way cookies are sent with every server request from the user’s browser. To […]