People own websites for a variety of personal, business, charity and other purposes, but often they overlook simple security protocols that help keep your site, and the web safe. Websites gets hacked for a variety of reasons. However, often the the stereotype is teenagers messing around in their spare time. While this can be the case, most website that are “hacked” are done so automatically by online programs with scripts that targets sites built with particular technologies.
This is generally done for commercial reasons. The hacking scripts most often insert links into your site, change the direction of your online ads, or point your domain name to other places in an effort to exploit the traffic flow from your site to make the hackers money. The hackers make money, you lose out, and you could even inadvertently infect your visitors’ computers with spyware, adware, or wose.
At the very least, getting hacked can cause you hassles and headaches that can be easily avoided. At the worst restoring your site, and repairing your reputation can cost you money. Most servers offer fully-automated backups so that you can revert your site if anything goes wrong, but every hosting company is different and the way they deal with backups may vary from host to host. Websites built with blogging or content management tools like WordPress or Joomla can be more targeted than sites coded from scratch. When hackers design the automated programs to hack sites automatically, they target sites that have know vulnerabilities, such as out of date software. Hackers know that if they find a security hole in WordPress they will be able to use it to hack thousands of WordPress based sites with the same security hole. This is why it is so important to keep your site up-to-date.
In addition to updating your site’s software, here are some other tips that may help you keep your site safe from hackers:
- Use strong passwords preferably using the password generator tool.
- Keep your online software and your computer software up-to-date with the latest upgrades available.
- Back up all your data at least once every day or use a back tool instead. This will protect you from loosing you files and you can always restore your site instantly using the backup file.
- Use password protect directory feature to protect your folders that contain important files. Like e.g. admin or includes folder.
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