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Web hosts spend a lot of time and money on security. They should, it's their job to ensure the safety of the websites on their hosting servers. Hackers know this. So instead of targeting the web hosts with their malicious intent, they target individual web sites. More specifically, hackers go after websites by targeting the webmaster. A hacker goes after a webmaster by downloading a virus onto the webmaster's computer which harvests FTP login details that are often stored as an uprotected file within software like Filezilla. Once a hacker has access to your website, they can do a number of things including: - Insert links in to your site & create link farms
- Capture your member’s information
- Links to malware
- Spread viruses
- Destroy your site How to Hacker Proof Your Website Keep your virus protection software up-to-date. In fact, set the virus protection software settings to automatically update when you're asleep at night. Don’t store log in details on your local PC unprotected. In other words, don't store in the FTP software’s auto log in. Manually logging in to your FTP will add like 10 seconds to your routine. Get over it. This is time well spent if it means your site in not compromised. Regularly change your FTP password with a strong, and ideally random, password using capitals, numbers and extra characters. Disable FTP access when you don’t need it. Follow these steps to keep your website hacker proof via the hacker strategy of targeting the webmaster. How To Hacker Proof Your Website
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