How Safe Is Your Website? [Infographic]
It’s time. Your website needs a health checkup. Sure, you could wait…if you want to increase your potential in being among the 648,000,000 websites reporting problems related to hacking and tampering.
Complete a brief checkup now. Are you committing one of the following, unsafe actions?
- Using cheap hosting services
- Leveraging badly-coded third-party extensions
- Keeping poor or weak log-in passwords for executive credentials
- Hosting out-of-date platforms, extensions, plug-ins, or third-party services
Joomla and WordPress (48% of web’s 100 most-popular blogs use) are well-liked content management systems. Hackers are well aware, exacting the following, nefarious actions of the CMS of choice:
- Script injections, embedded on your website by third-party downloads
- Bypassing normal authentification pathways, gaining FTP and other info
- Malware-like threats, most visible to search engines like Google, which may label your site as ‘compromised’
- Redirects, affecting prime as well as sub domains
Don’t fall victim to an array of threats influencing the livelihoods and operations of webmasters of all industries. A number of protection services and options made available to users include:
- Verify your website using Google Webmaster Tools
- Use a secure hosting service
- Keep PHP extensions up-to-date
- Backup the information on your website
- Log network traffic, better enabling hacker identification
- Use scanners, regularly checking for breaches and instances of hacking
