WebsiteDefender Security Check: Backdoor Scripts
May 9, 2012 - 3:05 pm | No CommentEven if you have taken the necessary precautions to protect your website from hackers – you have deployed the necessary firewalls and installed antivirus programs across all your platforms – your website can still be exposed to a specific type of web malware known as backdoor scripts. Some backdoor scripts techniques are capable of bypassing [...]
What Are Malware Links?
May 2, 2012 - 4:13 pm | No CommentA malware attack usually occurs when a malicious code has been injected into your website. In most cases hackers inject the code through HTML or htaccess files. There was a time when only porn websites or illegal websites were mainly responsible for malware infections. Nowadays, even a normal website may have links that can infect [...]
WebsiteDefender Security Check: Rootkits
April 19, 2012 - 3:38 pm | No CommentIn a previous post about website malware we outlined the general malware checks that WebsiteDefender can perform. Let’s dive in deeper into the root exploit checks. Root exploits – most commonly rootkits – are an area of malware that many people don’t fully understand because there’s limited information available online. The resources that are available [...]
The Odds of Web Malware Infections and Your Choice in that Matter
February 17, 2012 - 3:28 pm | No CommentThe Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report states that the Web is the second most common infection vector for malware. The recent lilupophilupop.com SQL injection attacks infecting over a million web pages is a good example of what can happen. According to Google’s Four Years of Web Malware report, a lot of this malware is [...]
Avoiding an Infected Website
December 14, 2011 - 4:00 pm | No CommentHacking has evolved exponentially over the years. With the internet taking a central role in our lives today, people and businesses need to be more aware of the issue in order to avoid ending up having to recover from an infected website. Hackers do not discriminate when it comes to whose website they hack; in fact, [...]