Foregenix Blog

Recently our security experts have been busy overhauling our free external scanning tool. Having done some fine tuning, added a plethora of new scanning capabilities and given it a lick of new paint, it's now ready for the public! 

Those of you familiar with our older scanning tool will notice a big difference. The traffic light risk system has been expanded to include a score as well as a new graph so that you can track your results over time (or, have one of our security team email results to you weekly, at no cost). Our scanner is now able to present even more information about Magento based websites, making it - we believe - the most comprehensive Magento malware scanner available. It also checks for valid SSL certificates; if a website isn't 'https' it's flagged as unsafe.

 

Alongside changes to the initial results, we've also added some handy tabs underneath the results so that you can gain a deeper insight into any potential vulnerabilities the scanner may flag up.

 

 

As industry leaders in cybersecurity, we take an active interest in the threat landscape. In a bid to learn more about what the current state of play was for Magento, we put our new scanner to good use.  We ran it against 217,946 Magento websites and found that 5% were hacked and harbouring credit card harvesting malware, subsequently leaking cardholder data to third party attackers.

Brute force attacks have plagued the internet for years. It’s a fairly simple concept; attempt every combination of words/numbers until the right one is accepted. In this blog post we will be looking at recent trends as well as what you can do to protect your business.

The Techie Awards 2018 are a Business Exchange initiative, created to celebrate the innovation and entrepreneurship of the IT community in Swindon & Wiltshire. We were named as finalists among 12 other companies and were lucky enough to come away with the accolade of ‘Best Tech Security’.

Earlier this year we were shortlisted for a prestige award at Fraud Awards 2017, presented by Retail Risk. Judges had selected Foregenix as a potential for Best Newcomer with the flagship product FGX-Web. Not long after proceedings began, we came highly commended by none other than the organiser of the event, Paul Bessant. 

Recently, it was discovered that over 14 million Verizon customers data, including PIN’s, had been exposed on an unprotected web server.  Three million WWE fan’s personal information was left exposed when it was discovered to be on an unprotected web server.  Both of these took place in the same month.  It happens more often than you’d think and the solution can be as simple as talking to your hosting provider.