Uncover the Hidden Security Flaws That Could Destroy Your Website—And 22 Expert Tips to Stop Hackers Now!
- Password breaches: This often happens through brute force, where hackers automatically try out username and password combinations until they gain access to your site.
- Defacement: This is the online form of vandalism. An attacker changes the appearance of your website, often with a message that you’ve been hacked.
- Ransomware: This blocks access to your website and encrypts your files until you pay the attacker.
- Data breaches: Hackers steal confidential information saved on your site to sell on the black market or use for their own purposes.
- Malware infection: Malicious software is injected into your site to spread to visitors, for example, to hijack their computers.
- Denial of service attacks: DoS or DDoS attacks aim to overload your server with traffic or large amounts of data in order to make your website slow or completely inaccessible.
- Cross-site scripting (XSS): Malicious scripts are inserted into web pages so attackers can harvest login credentials and other information from user browsers.
- SQL injections: Code to run database commands and change, delete, or steal data is injected into a site. This may include creating a new user with administrator rights to your website.
- Spam: Filling your website with unwanted ads and malicious links.
- Phishing: Fake login or input forms designed to trick users into entering personal information.
- Botnet recruitment: Hijacking your site and server resources as part of a larger network of compromised sites to carry out attacks.
The scope and variety of online threats make security an issue even for basic websites.
