The Small Business Guide to Affordable Managed Website Security

If you run a small business, your website is your storefront, sales rep, and support desk rolled into one. Keeping it safe matters—but should you DIY security or pay for a managed service? This guide compares both approaches, outlines clear pricing tiers, shows what’s included (monitoring, backups, WAF, patching), and runs the numbers on ROI so you can choose confidently.

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Top 12 WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities of 2025 — How to Detect and Fix Them

WordPress powers a huge share of the web, and plugins make it flexible — but plugins are also the most common source of site compromises. In 2025 attackers continue to target vulnerable plugins, using automation, supply-chain abuse, and legacy code mistakes to gain access. This guide inventories the Top 12 plugin vulnerabilities, explains how attackers exploit them, provides practical detection scripts and checks you can run today, and gives robust mitigation patterns: from vendor patches to virtual patching with a WAF.

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Hackers Exploiting ICTBroadcast Cookie Flaw (CVE-2025-2611) to Gain Remote Shells — What defenders should know

A critical command-injection bug in ICTBroadcast (an autodialer / call-center platform) — tracked as CVE-2025-2611 (CVSS ~9.3) — is being actively exploited in the wild. Researchers observed attackers using specially crafted HTTP requests that abuse unsafe handling of a session cookie (the BROADCAST cookie) to execute shell commands on exposed servers. Intelligence firms report ~200 internet-facing ICTBroadcast instances appear exposed, with attackers following a two-stage pattern (time-based probe, then attempts to establish reverse shells). Defenders must treat any exposed ICTBroadcast host as high risk and apply containment and remediation steps immediately.

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