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Last time we finished off with the advice that if you’re hosting mainly WordPress websites, you should only enable the BitNinja Safe Minimum ruleset for the “/” location or any other domain pattern that contains “/wp-admin”. So let’s talk a bit more about domain patterns With the BitNinja WAF, we’d like to give you the […]

New LogAnalysis with 109x speed The former version of SenseLog (which serves our robust LogAnalysis module) has processed the files at the start and observed them if there were any changes in them. It has used a lot of sources for the dates in the log rows. In this version it was necessary because SenseLog […]

A new flaw on the horizon! A new flaw has been discovered in phpMyAdmin, in which an attacker has the possibility to include files on the server. This vulnerability is caused because of a portion of a code where the pages are redirected and loaded in phpMyAdmin. Here are the steps, how it can be […]

We know that our customers care a lot about their own customers, too. Just like we care about you, and about making the internet a safer place. So, with the following series of articles titled “Wordpress hosting and the BitNinja WAF - how to do it right?”, I’d like to help those who work in WordPress hosting, […]

HTTP/2 support with BitNinja WAF 2.0 The version of bitninja-ssl-termination 1.1.0, which is practically a HAProxy (1.8.9), can handle HTTP2 connections. It will be installed automatically by BitNinja (v 1.20.10) and it will reconfigure the configs for HTTP/2. It only affects the HTTPS connections. HTTP2 over TLS (h2) is supported by all of the modern […]

Riskware – a thin line between benign and malicious programs Programming is something that can be used for good and also for bad reasons. We can write software with the sole purpose of causing harm, or we can be developers whose aim is to make things better and easier. Nowadays we can hear a lot […]

There are things we are not really waiting for, in fact we are looking for a way to bypass or avoid them. Unfortunately, some of them are inevitable just like the Cyber Worldwar, which in fact has already begun. Mentionable acts from history There was a historical milestone on May 12th, 2017 when within only […]

As you know, recently we’ve released multiple security patches for the Drupalgeddon vulnerabilities. The last one was Drupal Remote Code Execution - SA-CORE-2018-004, CVE-2018-7602, patched only 2 days after it was first discovered. We’re very proud of our quick reaction time and would like to share some statistics with you about the attacks that were […]

Where it all began Kevin David Mitnick is one of the most famous hackers. At age 13 Mitnick used dumpster dicing and social engineering to bypass the bus ticketing system in Los Angeles, this way he was able to ride the LA area using unused transfer slips. First big step His first unauthorized access to […]