Hackers are notoriously clever at committing crimes. Of all the criminal archetypes, they seem to be the most creative; so creative that we were forced to invent yet another word to describe their latest scams. Malvertising — a new shorthand for malicious advertising — is something very different from the traditional methods hackers have historically used.
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Suit Up and Protect WordPress
In the final part of the series, I am going to show a few practical tips and tricks for protecting your WordPress blog. We have seen earlier how a simple XSS vulnerability can lead to the total compromise of the hosting environment. We not only managed to deploy a backdoor, dump all data from the databases and retrieve each file from […]