Since the dawn of the computer we have had our fair share of problems with hackers and wannabe hackers. Hackers have even tried to penetrate the U.S. Government websites in the past.
There was a high profile case not long ago where a hacker penetrated the Official Spanish EU presidency website. Once they got onto the site they managed to upload a picture of Mr. Bean onto it. So can we stop people from trying to hack into our websites?
You could choose to browse the Internet with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox instead of the more popular Internet Explorer. This is because Internet Explorer is apparently more vulnerable to hacking attacks than the other two browsers.
Regularly change your passwords for your websites. Weekly password changes should be sufficient to prevent unwanted attacks. You could also use a combination of capital letters, numbers, lower case letters and symbols for your passwords. This can make it harder for the hackers to crack your password.
If you run any SQL scripts always escape the variable data to enable your log in information to return to your system.
With open sources such as Movable type or Word press the hackers can always come up with a good guess as to where the log in screen is. Some of the codes for these open sources have potholes that can be exploited by hackers.
Websites should be encrypted with SSL, to stop any data that is sent back and forth from being picked up by hackers.
Firewalls should be kept on at all times. Always have up to date Anti Virus software, and always scan your computer regularly.
Letting other people use your computer is also a security risk. It is possible that hackers are sometimes people we already know.
There was a high profile case not long ago where a hacker penetrated the Official Spanish EU presidency website. Once they got onto the site they managed to upload a picture of Mr. Bean onto it. So can we stop people from trying to hack into our websites?
You could choose to browse the Internet with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox instead of the more popular Internet Explorer. This is because Internet Explorer is apparently more vulnerable to hacking attacks than the other two browsers.
Regularly change your passwords for your websites. Weekly password changes should be sufficient to prevent unwanted attacks. You could also use a combination of capital letters, numbers, lower case letters and symbols for your passwords. This can make it harder for the hackers to crack your password.
If you run any SQL scripts always escape the variable data to enable your log in information to return to your system.
With open sources such as Movable type or Word press the hackers can always come up with a good guess as to where the log in screen is. Some of the codes for these open sources have potholes that can be exploited by hackers.
Websites should be encrypted with SSL, to stop any data that is sent back and forth from being picked up by hackers.
Firewalls should be kept on at all times. Always have up to date Anti Virus software, and always scan your computer regularly.
Letting other people use your computer is also a security risk. It is possible that hackers are sometimes people we already know.
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