Hackers don’t kill websites – lethargy does, writes Wez Maynard of Veritcal Leap. He blogs on why websites are hacked.
Unfortunately, what this new age seems to also promise is an era where our kitchen appliances can share personal information across the internet with malicious intent. Now, whilst I can’t help you make sure your vacuum cleaner won’t try and max out your credit card – I can offer some advice on how to keep you most valuable connected asset secure. Namely, your website.
Latest figures suggest that around 30,000 websites every single day are hacked. Now, you might be asking yourself “who would hack my website?” The real question you should ask is “what does someone have to gain from hacking my website?” Assuming you aren’t a popular pro-adultery website with extremely sensitive (valuable) information at your disposal, the likelihood is that a hacker would use your website to facilitate malicious activity. This activity can manifest itself as; simple advertising banners on your site, spam links showing up in your google search results, spam product names in your meta tags and website copy or using your website’s server to blanket send 100,000s of spam emails. Most of the time, website owners have no idea their sites have been hacked until they are informed by search engines like Google and Bing (usually because they are blocking visits).
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