Month: November 2016

Protect your Magento Installation from Password Guessing
November 3, 2016 - eCommerce / Magento

Protect your Magento Installation from Password Guessing

Accordingly Magento Tech Resources We’re seeing an increasing number of brute force password guessing attacks on Magento installations worldwide. In some cases, these attacks have resulted in unauthorized admin panel access. We highly recommend that you take steps outlined below to protect your store against such attacks. As a first step, take an inventory all ...
New vulnerability of Magento platforms in Linux
November 3, 2016 - eCommerce / Magento

New vulnerability of Magento platforms in Linux

There’s a serious vulnerability that affects most Linux Operating Systems, CVE-2016-5195, also known as Dirty COW (yes, the name sounds silly but the problem is serious!). Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel that can allow a local user (like a web hosting account) to gain root access to the ...