Remember the time when Swedish police took down The Pirate Bay in late 2014? The online torrent files index and repository, IsoHunt announced its Open Bay Project, the idea behind this was “a new way for Internet users to work together so the torrenting service would always be available on a domain”. But with The Pirate Bay is back online, it […]
Yesterday we reported how WordPress (WP) was banned in Pakistan due to internet security issues. We also revealed that the banned will be a temporary one. Now according to sources Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), WordPress has unblocked in Pakistan and bloggers can access the platform without using any proxy or VPN. Those who can’t access the site […]
According to various sources and local media houses, WordPress.com has been banned in Pakistan. This shocking decision was today taken by the Pakistani government. They have ordered the Internet Service Providers to temporarily block the content management website. The world famous blogging platform WordPress.com and the websites hosted on it can not be accessed in […]
In a shocking decision the government of Pakistan has banned WordPress.com, the world renowned open-source blogging tool and a content management system. Users in the country can’t access WordPress.com nor the blogs hosted on it. However, the Self hosted blogs on WordPress are still accessible. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the reason for banning WordPress in the […]
Yet another vulnerability has been found in the Yoast WordPress plugin that can be exploited by attackers allowing them to control the site. Just a week ago, the case was associated with WordPress SEO plugin that is being used by more than a million WordPress websites. However, this time the case is focused on the […]
A number of websites have been put at risk due to a very popular plugin of the WordPress content management platform vulnerability that allows to hackers to attack the websites. Actually, the fault lies in many of the versions of the WordPress Plugin called ‘WordPress SEO by Yoast’ that has over 14 million downloads thus […]
WordPress’s MainWP Child Plugin has vulnerability… and it is very much exploitable. Researchers at Sucuri have identified a vulnerability in the MainWP Child plugin for WordPress, which according to them is potentially exploitable and can allow hackers to fully control any website. Mickael Nadeau, Sucuri’s security and vulnerability researcher, revealed the finding in his blog […]
Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS attack against a large gaming website, in which WordPress played a key role, yet again. Typically, such application layer DDoS attacks are carried out by host botnets, but this time team Incapsula were surprised to see that the attack originated from approximately 2,500 WordPress sites, including some very […]
Even visiting security-oriented websites can sometimes be risky. If you’ve visited the security blog zerosecurity.org this month and you’re also a user of ESET’s security products, you might have encountered an anti-virus alert such as this one: The detection names may vary. Different variants of the following “generic families” were detected on the compromised websites on