Protecting Your WordPress Site From Hackers

WordPress is a very common and popular content management system used to develop everything from blogs to ecommerce sites. Unfortunately, it’s also a very common target for attacks and other abuse. Securing your WordPress site from attackers takes a bit of work...

OpenSSL Vulnerability Advisory : CVE-2015-1783

A vulnerability has been discovered and patched for OpenSSL versions 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2b, and later versions. This vulnerability could allow a malicious attacker into tricking the software into trusting a certificate that shouldn’t be trusted by a CA. It’s...

Top Reasons to Get Tranquil Instead of AWS

There’s no denying the success of Amazon Web Services – $5 Billion in revenue and over one million customers is nothing to sneeze at. But even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos admits that AWS is hard, saying in his most recent letter to shareholders: “[AWS is] still a...

POODLE SSL Vulnerability

Last week, a vulnerability was publicly announced in the SSLv3 protocol by Google engineers.  The vulnerability can make it easier for an attacker to access de-crypted sensitive data using a Man In The Middle (MITM) attack.  In most situations, this is not an...

Don’t let the POODLE get you, remove SSL 3.0 now!

Today we’re writing about a vulnerability in the antiquated and obsolete SSL 3.0 protocol. In many instances, the usage of the SSL 3.0 protocol has already been replaced by TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2 while maintaining backwards interoperability with SSL 3.0...