There is a major exploit in Magento that is affected nearly all versions of the popular ecommerce platform. The exploit allows a hacker to take control of both admin and the server. Securi was the first to discover the exploit back in early November, but it took until January 22, 2016 for Magento to release […]
The Google “Penalty” That is Actually From a Hacked Site
Recently, there has been an increase in the number of webmasters who are reporting that they have lost all Google referral traffic. Normally, when one sees organic referrals from Google drop to zero, the natural assumption is that the site has a site-wide manual action applied. Yet when looking in Google Search Console, there is […]
Another Major Joomla Zero Day Exploit, Update Required
If you use Joomla, there is yet another critical vulnerability and this one is racing through the wild. An immediate update is required for all versions of Joomla. According to Sucuri, they began noticing the exploit on December 12th, and it has been running wild through Joomla sites. They noted yesterday that “the wave of […]
Major Joomla Security Issue, Patch Required to Prevent SQL Injection
There is a major exploit on sites that are running the Joomla CMS and it appears that many sites have yet to be updated to prevent the vulnerability. The Joomla team just released a new Joomla version (3.4.5) to fix some serious security vulnerabilities. The most critical one is a remote and unauthenticated SQL injection […]