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There has been a significant uptick in major network attacks worldwide today with the bulk of them being inside the USA.
This can cause slowness, website loading failures and even the destruction of small and medium networks. It appears the majority of these attacks are originating from China at this time.
Net Attacks Up Over 80%
Please be aware of this and understand the importance of protecting your computers, network and website from a malicious attack.
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We are pleased to announce that .CHURCH domain names are about to become available.
If you would like to obtain a .CHURCH extension for your church website or someone else’s, we can assist in that.
This would allow you to use, for example firstbaptist.church as your web address.
Please reply using this form to let us know if you want us to try and grab your choice as soon as it is available which should be by the end of September. Be sure to tell us the exact name you want the .church extension for. Continue reading
The GraceNet Content Delivery Network And Web Application Firewall
This amazing new system helps your web presence succeed by:
1.) Getting your web content to your end users faster and more reliably.
2.) Stopping attacks against your site BEFORE they have a chance to enter.
Our new GraceNet Content Delivery Network And Web Application Firewall is about to be released but YOU get a chance to order it at a discount before new clients can get it. Continue reading
The last few days has brought about a massive influx of broken WordPress websites. What makes it so unique is that the malicious payload is being blindly injected which is causing websites to break. While we’re still researching, we do want to share share some observations:
SQL Injection Vulnerability – vBulletin 5.x
IF YOU USE vBulletin forum software on your web site this is for you!!!
The vBulletin team just released a security patch for vBulletin 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 to address a SQL injection vulnerability on the member list page. Every vBulletin user needs to upgrade to the latest version asap.
vBulletin is a very popular forum software used on more than 100,000 web sites.
Directly from vBulletin.com:
A security issue has been reported to us that affects the versions of vBulletin listed here: 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.1.2 We have released security patches to account for this vulnerability. The issue may allow attackers to perform SQL injection attacks on your database. It is recommended that all users update as soon as possible.
You can download the patch for your version here: http://members.vbulletin.com/patches.php
If you can’t patch vBulletin, we recommend blocking access to the memberlist page in the mean time.
It is important for you to know that there has been an internet-wide upsurge in bank phishing attacks against websites around the world.
In these attacks a hacker gains access to a website by obtaining or guessing the site password or, more often, exploiting a weakness in code on the website. They then place files on the website designed to fool people into thinking they are at their legitimate bank website where they enter their account access information and the hacker then has what is needed to access and potentially empty a person’s bank account.
What Does This Mean For You? If your website is hacked by a Phisher, your site will quickly be tagged by the major internet security blacklists and this can cause your website to be totally inaccessible. Once listed, it can take a while to get all the criteria met to have your site declared safe. This is often a very expensive ordeal to go through costing hundreds of dollars.
What Should You Do? Make sure your cPanel/FTP passwords are very strong, using upper and lowercase letters, numbers and special characters. If you have ANY doubt, change them immediately to a very strong password. You can generate a strong password here: http://passwordsgenerator.
If your website uses blogs or message boards or ANY .php pages they need to be current versions and up to date coding.
•••• Our GraceNet Anti-Malware System has caught hundreds of these attacks as well as literally thousands of other types of assaults on our client’s websites so we strongly recommend that, if you have not already done so, you add this incredibly valuable protection to your site. Information is here:
http://gracenet.org/GNMalware.
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