XML-RPC attacks are “trending” nowadays. If you search for “XML-RPC attack” on Google, you can see approximately 380,000 results. Most of the articles deal with XML-RPC attacks on WordPress-based websites. What is XML-RPC? RPC stands for remote procedure call and XML is the abbreviation of Extensible Markup Language. XML is widely used to represent data […]
Do you have a monolithic application (for example a complex server-side enterprise application) with big features like support varieties of different clients, API for 3rd parties and some integrations with other web services and message brokers? Code usage is tolerable, but you want to release a smashing feature in the future, though you do not […]
This time of the year is always very cheerful. It’s the holiday season; everyone is happy and excited with all the festivities going on. But it’s important to be careful, especially during the holidays and going into the new year. Hackers prey during this time period, distractions from the season are all around. Hackers need […]
We are all human beings and do not work like flawless creatures of artificial intelligence, we are prone to make mistakes and forget things. Although, sometimes we forget crucial information which might be essential to our daily life, like the root password of our server. For a sysadmin it can be a real disaster if […]
Recently our support team has received questions about a highly controversial topic, a traffic exchange service, because these server owners started to receive incident reports from us about DoS attacks coming from their servers. We decided to write this blog in order to dissolve any possible concerns and doubts about BitNinja’s reaction to this service […]
WordPress is the most commonly used blog engine, which is free to use and has an open source code. It is used mainly for the operation of websites, blogs and webshops. If your purpose is to have a great website in a blink of an eye, which you are able to develop later in parallel […]
Since the release of Pokemon Go two weeks ago, several accidents and flabbergasting incidents occurred to its users. For example there was a person who drove to a tree by car because he was using the app while driving. Furthermore, since last week, we can talk about the first lethal accident connected to the mobile […]
Part 2 Despite it’s disadvantages, using password-based authentication is still the most common way to identify users on the Internet. The biggest drawback of these methods is that they involve the users. People specify their login credentials whenever they register on a site and people are known to be bad in both specifying and memorizing […]
Most of us might have heard about the strict Internet censorship of China conducted by the Great Firewall, which bans all web requests that threaten their democracy. The browser either shows a blank page or a reminder about the censorship. However, not so long ago researchers found that China is deploying a tool, called the […]
