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Since 2009, our globally-distributed team has ceaselessly innovated with one goal in mind – to make websites safer and faster in a world of emerging threats.

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How do I find my FTP information?

In order for us to clean your site, we need FTP or SSH access to your hosting account. By providing this, we are able to evaluate and scan every file in your site. This information can be found in cPanel or in your hosting company’s dashboard. Since...

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Sucuri Firewall Troubleshooting Guide

If you’re having trouble with our Website Application Firewall (WAF), don’t worry. It’s optimized for all types of websites, including those on a CMS or built with custom code. Proceed through the steps below and if you still have trouble, don’t...

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Facebook Unable to Get Page Details

When you post a link on Facebook, the URL will be acessed by Facebook bot in order to get the details of that page or article. Sucuri Firewall won’t block good bots such as Google, Bing, Facebook, etc., by default, but there are special...

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Internal Domains

When your site is under development or you want to try the WAF without changing your DNS, there is a WAF feature called Internal Domains. You can find the Internal Domain address for your website by acessing the main page of the WAF dashboard, right...

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SiteCheck Widget

Want to add the SiteCheck scanner to your site? Do you want to allow your visitors to check their own sites to see if they have been compromised? The Sitecheck widget allows just that. If you are an affiliate, you can add your affiliate code in the...

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Brute Force

Brute force attacks occur when a bad actor attempts a large amount of combinations on a target. These attacks frequently involve multiple attempts on account passwords with the hopes that one of them will be valid. It’s a bit like trying all of the...

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Attacks

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Definitions

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Hardening

There are many ways to secure your site and reduce your risk of being compromised. We used to alert only on the signs of compromise (like malware, SPAM, defacement, blacklisting, etc), but we started to give recommendations on Sitecheck that can...

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