Security Updates: WordPress plugins and WHMCS

There have been a few security announcements recently for popular software products in the web hosting world: Popular web host billing software WHMCS announced a security advisory on April 23rd with a critical update needed to most currently used versions of its...

Urgent Security Notice: WHMCS

WHMCS, a popular web hosting billing and automation software package, announced a security advisory today for all recent versions.  WHMCS listed this update as “critical” so anyone using WHMCS or that has an unused installation online is urged to take...

PHP Security: Analyzing an Exploit

We recently had reports of a vBulletin site we host being infected with malicious code.  Having worked for years in vBulletin hosting, we have a good bit of experience addressing security matters for vBulletin-related plugins. Troubleshooting these types of problems...

RTLD Security Exploit in FreeBSD

On November 30 2009, a security vulnerability was discovered by Nikolaos Rangos (aka Kingcope) in recent FreeBSD releases exploting code in the run-time link-editor, rtld. A patch was shortly issued and updated binaries were announced December 3 2009 in FreeBSD...