The adoption of the protocol’s secure variant has continued its growth spurt in recent months, crossing the 50-percent milestone for the first time ever. More than one-half (51.8 percent) of the one million most visited websites worldwide now actively redirect to HTTPS, the secure version of the HTTP protocol over which data between a device … More Majority of the world’s top million websites use HTTPS
For as little as $15 per month, anyone with a criminal bent could rent the services of webstresser.org to take down a targeted site. An international law enforcement operation has shut down a website widely thought to be the world’s biggest marketplace for hiring distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, according to an announcement by the United Kingdom’s National … More World’s biggest DDoS marketplace taken down, six suspected admins nabbed
If you’re still running a website that is still using insecure HTTP then it’s time to wake up and drink the coffee. Because unless you take action soon, you’re going to find many of your visitors are going to distrust your website. The reason? Google is pushing ahead with its plan for the Chrome browser … More All HTTP websites to soon be marked as “not secure” by Google Chrome
Thousands of WordPress webpages hacked, ESET Ireland finds several Irish pages, including GAA Daily among them. Two weeks ago WordPress 4.7.2 was released, and website administrators running self-hosted versions of the hugely popular CMS and blogging platform were advised to update their systems as a matter of urgency. What we didn’t know at the time … More 100,000+ WordPress webpages defaced, Irish pages included
When talking about the attacks and threats users must face every day, people often highlight those that are more or less predictable, such as malicious archives sent as email attachments. Even though these threats are still very present (e.g. in the different ransomware variants), cybercriminals also use many other attack vectors. Some of the most dangerous … More Malicious scripts in compromised websites and how to protect yourself
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