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Attacking & Securing WordPress

Learn the tips and techniques used to attack and break into WordPress based websites. With knowledge of these hacker techniques, you will be better prepared to keep your sites secure. Penetration testers or red teams wishing to exploit WordPress targets will also find helpful pointers in this guide. Enumeration (Recon) 1. WordPress Core Version Enumeration […]
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10 years ago

Top WordPress sites vulnerable 6 wks after plugin patch released

Background on the Vulnerabilities W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache two of the WordPress communities most popular plugins were found to have a code execution vulnerability. An exploit that enables code execution is about as bad as it gets. New releases of the plugins were released on the 18th of April. The following caching […]
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10 years ago

SPF Checked – a look at the Sender Policy Framework

Heard of SPF but not sure how to pass an SPF check? Lets get back to basics and have a quick look at the SPF DNS record that can make your email delivery more reliable and less likely to hit the spam folder. An SPF record is a DNS TXT record that contains the IP […]
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10 years ago

Online Firewall Test for Work or Home

Firewall Testing is the only way to accurately confirm whether the firewall is working as expected. Complicated firewall rules, poor management interfaces, and other factors often make it difficult to determine the status of a firewall. By using an external port scanner it is possible to accurately determine the firewall status. This type of firewall […]
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11 years ago

There are no WordPress Timthumb Hackers in Mongolia

What is Timthumb? Back in August 2011, a serious vulnerability was discovered in many popular WordPress themes and Plugins. The code enabled automatic thumbnail creation when publishing with the WordPress content management system. While not a part of the WordPress core, the code had been reused by many developers, including both commercial and free theme […]
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11 years ago

Update GeoIP data for Splunk App

If you are using the GeoIP app for Splunk you will find that it has not been updated recently. The last update was June 2011. Following my recent post regarding the installation of Splunk on an Ubuntu based system I started to dig into this app and found that it is a simple matter to […]
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11 years ago

Leading websites that enable IPv6 now at 2.68%

There is a need for web site owners and business to enable IPv6 on networks and public facing Internet services. HackerTarget.com has completed a second survey of the websites in the Alexa Top 1 Million to review the latest progress. The survey tested each host for the presence of an AAAA DNS record. This is […]
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11 years ago

Firewalling Ubuntu with UFW for IPv4 + IPv6

Under Ubuntu, you can quickly build an iptables based firewall using the handy built-in firewall configuration tool UFW - Uncomplicated Firewall. Network architectures will vary, but if you are deploying Internet facing Servers you generally should be configuring a host-based firewall. It can protect listening services that don't need to be Internet accessible. In addition, […]
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11 years ago

30 most popular Drupal themes in Top 1M websites

In this list of popular Drupal Themes in the Alexa Top 1 million, I have tallied the number of Drupal themes based on the path of the theme installation. Drupal theme counts were determined by analysing the html of the root pages in the top 1 million websites and extracting the default Drupal theme path […]
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11 years ago

Bro-IDS Ubuntu 16.04 Install & Tutorial

Bro IDS Installation under Ubuntu 16.04 Grab the required packages using apt. apt install cmake make gcc g++ flex bison libpcap-dev libssl-dev python-dev swig zlib1g-dev libgeoip-dev We have included the libgeoip-dev package as we are going to configure our installation with GeoIP support. wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCityv6-beta/GeoLiteCityv6.dat.gz gzip -d GeoLiteCity.dat.gz gzip -d GeoLiteCityv6.dat.gz Move the […]
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11 years ago