A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a type of distributed attack that attempts to disrupt an online service by making it unavailable to its users over a targeted computer network. This is usually done by overwhelming the service with traffic from unknown sources. These attackers typically target networks with important resources, which include popular websites and banking sites, presenting a major challenge to users who want to access important information. In essence, DDOS…
If the security and privacy of your customers is important to you, then using SSL certificates should be on top of your priority list. Safeguarding your website helps you create trust in your business by offering an identity proof to your customers online. This kind of security gives your customers the confidence that no private information will be tapped online and that all the online transactions they make are secure with trustworthy Secure Server Certificates.…
Recently, more than 100,000 WordPress sites had been affected by an assailable third-party plug-in, and this number is expected to increase further. The open-source WordPress blogging and content management system (CMS) is at heavy risk due to this third-party plug-in; and some of them may not even realize that they are running. Today, thousands of WordPress Websites are, thus, susceptible to exploitation via this malware known as SoakSoak. The Attack It is extremely important to…
It’s been a while since there was a computer security bug that we all had to worry about. Unfortunately, it seems like we may all have been facing one for two years and not even realized it. Earlier this week, security researchers announced a security flaw in OpenSSL, a popular data encryption standard, that gives hackers who know about it the ability to extract massive amount of data from the services that we use every day and…
SSL Certificate Contest – iPad mini Winner ResellerClub would like to thank everyone for participating in the SSL Certificate Contest that was held in partnership with Thawte and Symantec from 3rd January to 15th March 2014. The race was indeed a tight one, with the winner having resold as many as 65 SSL Certificates during the contest period! ResellerClub would like to congratulate the winner, Mr. Dmitry Tarasov of OOO Timeweb, Russia, and all of…
As I write this post, there is an on going and highly distributed, global attack on wordpress installations to crack open admin accounts and inject various malicious scripts. To give you a little history, we recently heard from a major law enforcement agency about a massive attack on US financial institutions originating from our servers. We did a detailed analysis of the attack pattern and found out that most of the attack was originating from…
The internet is abuzz with talks of the recent outage faced by Domain Registrar Godaddy. The outage was suspected to be because of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (commonly known as a DDoS attack) that targeted Godaddy’s DNS servers, affecting several websites as well as email services. (However, a recent statement by Godaddy mentions that it was an internal network error that caused the interruption in services) DDoS attacks are a fairly common occurrence…
A few days ago Microsoft released a Security Advisory (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/2416728.mspx) about a vulnerability which affects all versions of ASP.NET. This vulnerability known as Padding Oracle exploits the way an ASP.NET application handles encrypted data. ASP.NET encrypts data to prevent an application from tampering with it. Because of this vulnerability, an attacker can send data to a site and analyze the error response which provides a lot of information enabling the attacker to break the ASP.NET’s…