Young entrepreneurs in England looking to finance a new business should investigate the UK government’s Start-Up Loans program. Previously available only to people between the ages of 18 and 24 living in Britain, the government recently increased the age limit for applicants to 30. Start-Up…
MasterCard Suffer Online Attack
The multinational financial services corporation MasterCard has become one of the first hacking victims of 2013. The attack was performed by the Syrian Electronic Army who managed to submit a blog post with the title “Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army” after breaching the security of MasterCard’s…
How to Set (and Keep) Your Web Security Goals for 2013
Can you believe it’s time again for those New Year’s resolutions? It’s always great to start the New Year with a fresh set of to-do items that you’re finally going to get around to doing. The problem, however, is that when we set “resolutions”, the…
What if you Really Don’t have Anything Attackers Would Want?
I often make the argument that even if you don’t believe you have anything of value on your website, bad things can still happen. So, what exactly does this mean? Well, it’s not going to be the end of the world but having your website…
Don’t Be Held For Ransom with Ransomware
In her 5 December article in The New York Times, “For PC Virus Victims, Pay or Else,” cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth discusses the growing threat of ransomware in the USA. Ransomware is a type of malware that takes your computer hostage, freezing it until you…
An Unhappy New Year – Security Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities
Earlier this month, on the Security Week website, Steve Ragan published an article about a security researcher who posted several vulnerabilities to the Full Disclosure mailing list – seven of these are MySQL vulnerabilities. The complete list of vulnerabilities is available here. CVE assignments have…
Have a Merry WordPress 3.5 Christmas! Make it Last All Year with Acunetix
The folks over at WordPress released WordPress 3.5 on 11 December. A veritable Christmas present for bloggers and developers, WordPress 3.5 is chock full of new features and improvements. The most dramatic improvement is a re-imagined flow for uploading photos and creating galleries. WordPress 3.5 also includes…
Acunetix Support Availability During the Festive Season
Kindly note that the Acunetix Support Team will operate normally the last week of December 2012 and the first week of January 2013 with the following exceptions: 24 December – open until 6pm CET (GMT +1). 25, 26 December – closed 27 and 28 December…
WordPress Pingback Vulnerability
Recently somebody posted on Reddit about a WordPress scanner that is taking advantage of a new WordPress vulnerability. The vulnerability is abusing the Pingback system, which is a well-known feature that’s used by a lot of bloggers. What is a Pingback? Quoting Wikipedia: A pingback…