Some days back, I was brewing up some plans to optimize my website source codes, HTTP headers, latency, and other security aspects. I had to carry out some analysis and research using some tools available on the internet. I should admit that, at first, it looked pretty simple, but it was not. For instance, I […]
Memcache is an in-memory key-value pairs data store. The data store lives in the memory of the machine. That is why it is much faster compared to other data stores. The only thing that you can put in memcache are key-value pairs. You can also put anything that is serializable into memcache either as a […]
Several types of attack can be launched against WordPress website such as unwanted Bots, SSH Bot requests, unwanted Crawlers etc.. Some times back, i noticed that there were several attempts to perform a DDOS attack on a WordPress website by sending massive POST requests on the xmlrpc.php file. This will consequently brings the webserver to […]
After having set up our network environment for the operation WTF, cyberstorm.mu team started working on several vulnerabilities around WordPress content management system. It started on Saturday the 14th of May where several proofs of concept (POC) were established. I was shocked to see how come it is easy to exploit a WordPress website. For […]
If you have been following the recent activities of cyberstorm.mu those days, you would surely notice a new hackathon organized by the same team – Operation WTF with the aim to hack around WordPress security vulnerabilities. The event happened at Pereybere. Though we did not have any network connection, the guys started with the setting up […]