What To Do If Your Website Has Been Hacked
With luck, you’ve never experienced a website hack, but many of us have. You look at your site in the morning and it’s scrambled, gone, or worse – it’s showing links to unsavory sites. In some ways,...
View ArticleFinding Malware In A WordPress Website
What types of malware are most commonly found in WordPress websites, and how do they get there? SQL injection, JavaScript insertion and .htaccess hacks are all common ways to alter the content of your...
View ArticleSiteLock Incorporates Google Blacklist Data Into Scanner
Improved Identification Of Malicious Links SiteLock has recently upgraded its scanner to better utilize Google blacklist data. It makes use of the newest version of the SafeBrowsing API by Google, to...
View ArticleConfiguring The SiteLock SMART Malware Scanner
SiteLock is proud to present our latest feature in our dashboard, a malware scanner that not only finds the malicious code in your website but can also automatically remove it. This new scanning tool...
View ArticleThe SiteLock SMART Malware Scanner Dashboard
In our last post, we introduced you to the new automatic malware scanner SiteLock is offering to its customers, SiteLock Secure Malware Alert and Removal Tool (SMART). We discussed the setup and...
View ArticleWebsite Security Tips for Cyber Monday
With the growing popularity of the Internet over the past decade, the retail holiday Cyber Monday debuted in 2005 as the online version of Black Friday. It quickly became one of the biggest online...
View ArticleStopping the Insider Threat to Website Security
As we continue to watch the global fallout of the leaking of the NSA’s secret surveillance of everything from phone calls to Facebook, one of the more interesting and perhaps disturbing revelations was...
View ArticleDon’t Let a Trojan Virus Disrupt Your Business
If you’re like most small business owners, you probably don’t believe that something as small as a piece of malware could threaten your business. After all, what could you possibly have that malware...
View ArticleThe Hard Costs of Having Your Business Website Hacked… EVERYTHING
As National Cyber Security Awareness Month wraps up for yet another year, have you learned anything? More important, have you done anything, at least to improve your security? In case the answer to one...
View ArticleProtect Your Website From Hackers
No one likes talking or even thinking about bad things around the holiday season. It goes against the holiday spirit! But you may not have any choice. Bad things can happen to your business at any...
View ArticleSiteLock’s Rendition of the The Twelve Days of Christmas [Video]
At SiteLock, we see the biggest shopping season of the year as one of the biggest risk seasons too — at least for online threats. Let’s face it – most of us shop (and many of us sell) online to avoid...
View ArticleBusinesses Defenseless Against Hardware Keyloggers
When news broke last week that security researchers had found more than2 million stolen passwords hidden on a hacker’s website, it didn’t take long for media around the world to get on the case. It...
View ArticleHacked.gif: The Hidden Dangers of Malware in Website Images
For your company’s brand, sometimes image is everything. And how better to establish the your brand’s image than through the images on your website? The images you use on your website and social media...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Security Breach: Target
It’s not often we get a chance to attend a security breach postmortem — a step-by-step, hack-by-hack, mistake-by-mistake account of what went so horribly wrong. The U.S. Commerce Department recently...
View ArticleBlackshades RAT a Threat to Every Business
In what we can only hope is a sign of things to come, law enforcement around the world showed unprecedented cooperation in shutting the shades on a gang responsible for creating and sharing a nasty...
View ArticleWhy the eBay Data Breach Didn’t Get The Same Attention As Target
It seems a no-brainer that the recent massive eBay data breach should be a much bigger story than the Target breach. After all, the Target breach “only” affected 110 million customers where the eBay...
View Article10 Important Security Considerations For Your New Website
So you’re thinking about finally launching your first website. Or you’ve had a website up and running for years but it’s time for an upgrade, an overhaul, and brand new chapter in your online presence....
View ArticleCould Hackers Really Clone Your Business?
It’s bad enough to get a bunch of calls from irate suppliers wondering why you haven’t paid bills that are months overdue. But it’s even worse if you have no idea what they’re talking about. That’s...
View Article11 Cybersecurity Suggestions for the Traveling Executive
Going on vacation or traveling for business? One thing you can’t forget to take with you is vigilance. Hacking is a global enterprise and there are all kinds of traps and tricks just lying in wait for...
View ArticleProtecting Your Business From A Data Breach
It’s been a good time for malware and its authors, but a very bad time for businesses and especially those that have suffered a data breach. A variety of point of sale (PoS) malware has run rampant...
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