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Guard your website against malicious activity with WebsiteDefender
Acunetix released WebsiteDefender, an online security monitoring service which helps you secure websites against malware and hacker activity. Google’s security blog …
1,000+ WordPress sites compromised through automatic update feature
More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result …
New WordPress update a must for users
A new stable version of the popular free open source blogging tool WordPress is available for download, and users are advised to do get a move on and install it, as it’s …
New mass injection wave of WordPress websites
Websense has detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known rogue antivirus campaign. The majority of targets are Web sites hosted by the WordPress content management …
Large-scale spam campaign uses compromised webmail accounts and WordPress sites
A spam campaign currently under way has been spotted coming from several thousand compromised Yahoo!, AOL and Hotmail email accounts and taking advantage of compromised …
BackTrack adds RandomStorm WordPress scanner
RandomStorm’s WPScan, the free WordPress security scanner, has been added to the latest version of BackTrack. BackTrack is an open source operating system that provides …
Vulnerability in TimThumb WordPress plugins: The effects
With the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform, security researchers here at Websense Security Labs are sure to sit up and take note of any reported zero-day threats …
4,300+ compromised WordPress blogs poison Google Image Search results
Google Image Search has for a while now been littered with images that lure users to compromised sites that serve as doorway pages to other malicious sites. Part of the …
Zero-day bug found in WordPress themes
A bug in a popular WordPress utility is being misused by attackers to upload and make appear on the targeted site annoying and possibly malicious content. The bug was …
Is WordPress next in line for silent updates?
Silent software updates are still a topic of contention in the security world, but the successful implementation of the process by Google for its Chrome browser has definitely …
WordPress 3.1.4 fixes security issues
WordPress 3.1.4 is available now and is a maintenance and security update for all previous versions. This release fixes an issue that could allow a malicious Editor-level user …
WordPress users endangered by Trojanized plugins
Three popular WordPress plugins have been Trojanized by unknown individuals and made available for download, warned WordPress yesterday. “Earlier today the WordPress …
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