How would you know if your website was targeted by hackers?

The _only_ way is to test your site… review your potential services and programs running on the website Use the alpha service evaluation sample Or try the Sigma (∑) service evaluation sample   either way you will have a better picture of your hacker liability today. Contact Us

New Microsoft Word vulnerability

Technet link – specific wording: The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted RTF file using an affected version of Microsoft Word, or previews or opens a specially crafted RTF email message in Microsoft Outlook while using Microsoft Word as the email viewer. An attacker who successfully exploited the … Read more

Sample report

we have placed a sample evaluation on our fixvirus.com site (the alpha-A scan) Here we have scanned a server and found it had a few services turned on that should not have been. (Telnet and ftp should be replaced with a secure version, such as ssh and scp) The web services need to be tested … Read more

WordPress weaknesses requires vigilence

As Forbes article discusses: Update your plugins and widgets when they are vulnerable, use complex passwords, and otherwise use good security methodologies. It is the basics that people are not doing. What is easy to use makes it less secure, thus requiring more effort by the user or administrator to make sure it is secure … Read more

WordPress DDOS potential overplayed?

That is what Jason Cohen (CTO of WP engine) is saying at blogs.csoonline.com He also said: (what the pingback function does, calling it “an altruistic, friendly, social system.”) What can happen is a lot of pingbacks with the links in the comments.  If done  on many pages with a lot of effort it can happen. … Read more