Sucuri Malware Labs and Linux Firewalls

Daniel Cid and the Sucuri Malware Labs team do a great job at providing lists of IP addresses that can cause trouble. Just today they shared a List of IP addresses scanning for vulnerable timthumb which at the time of this article has 975 IP addresses listed. Let me...

Your site is hacked, now what?

For almost seventeen years now, we’ve been helping individuals as well as hosting providers with hacker clean up. Please allow me to share with you some of that experience in terms of what you should do should you find your site is hacked. First, backup your...

Managed Hosting – What are they managing?

Are you being lulled into believing you are on a managed server when you rent your server from the likes of Rackspace.com and other data centers stating they are offering managed servers? What does it really mean when a data center provider states they offer managed...

Revealing the process of becoming PCI Compliant

If you want to accept credit cards online, then you need to be PCI Compliant, whether your business is brand new, or your business been established for centuries. Over the years, we’ve helped various business owners and managers to become PCI Compliant. To those...

WordPress Security Release – Upgrade to 3.3.2 ASAP

WordPress 3.3.2 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. Three external libraries included in WordPress received security updates: Plupload (version 1.5.4), which WordPress uses for uploading media. SWFUpload, which WordPress previously...