To help you keep track of your website security status and give you an overview of the latest changes, we offer email reports to all of our clients. To enable reports from the monitor dashboard, click on the site name and then Settings -> Email...
Brute force directory guessing attacks are very common attacks used against websites and web servers. They are used to find hidden and often forgotten directories on a site to try to compromise. Directory Guessing Targets Attackers generally focus...
Brute force, or password guessing, attacks are very common against websites and web servers. They are one of the most common vectors used to compromise websites. The process is very simple and the attackers basically try multiple combinations of...
One of the most common causes for website compromises and malware attacks are due to outdated (and vulnerable) web software. Every software has bugs, but some of these bugs can lead to security vulnerabilities. As a webmaster, you always have to...
“An HTTP flood attack is a type of Layer 7 application attack that utilizes the standard valid GET/POST requests used to fetch information, as in typical URL data retrievals (images, information, etc.) during SSL sessions. An HTTP GET/POST flood is...
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack happens when multiple IP addresses (sources) are trying to DoS (denial-of-service) a chosen target. This means that the targeted site or server gets so many requests that it cannot respond to legitimate...
Layer 7 HTTP Flood – Cache Bypass is the smartest type of attack. The attackers try to use URLs that cause the most damage making the site use up all of its resources without being cached. For example, an attack can do random dictionary...
JavaScript is a coding language that can be executed directly by the browser and many other applications that support it such as: PDF, email readers, etc. Javascript malware Because it is a full programming language executed by the browser...
When a user visits a page served over HTTPS, their connection with the web server is encrypted and safeguarded from man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks. If the HTTPS page includes content retrieved through cleartext HTTP, then the connection is only...
If you are getting: The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 406] That usually means your hosting server has mod_security enabled and it is blocking the access. Contact your hosting support and ask them to disable...