Security tips to protect your website From Hackers.

Security breaches or hacking are fairly common occurrences that affect any websites regardless of their sizes. Website protection measures have improved immensely over time. As such, you ought to know how to protect your site and the things that you need to bear in mind when preventing hackers targeting your site.

Web administrators ought to have information on the dangers that are likely to occur. Below are top ways through which a website’s security. can be breached and how to handle various attack cases.

1. Phishing Malware

Phishing is a common hacker method used to get valuable information like passwords and personal information that can identify someone. For instance an email from a person that purports to know you or a service that you personally use may be a phishing malware. The email asks for personal information and in other instances direct you to a website that will deceive you to divulge some very sensitive personal information.

2. Spear Phishing or Whaling

There are other alternatives to phishing that aim at certain personalities, especially key figures in a firm such as the CEO or presidents. The attacker uses personal information to earn the trust of the target. This variation to phishing is called spear phishing or whaling.

3. Injection attacks

Hackers sometimes send untrusted data to interpreters trying to deal with commands or queries. They carry out the manipulation by use of injection weak spots for instance the SQL, OS and LDAP injection. The interpreter is forced to use commands and access data they are not supposed to without their knowledge.

4. Ransomware

There are those hackers who use very powerful encryption. The ransomware used is quite specialized in that it encrypts the whole of the victim’s hard drive and changes the password to accessing the data. They use the encrypted data as leverage to ask for ransom. The hackers use mediums like phishing emails and websites that are up to no good. The hackers are changing with times; currently, they have upgraded and are looking for sites that appear to have a weakness. They are installing the server side ransomware and using the data to ask for ransom. Luckily the instances have been thwarted severally especially if the security specialist are competent. But since the hackers have been bold enough to create ransomware, there are very high chances that they are becoming better with time, and soon they will come out much stronger.

5. Stealing Peoples Identity

There are worrying trends involving theft of children’s identity all over the world. The children only come to the realization that their identities were stolen once they are grown-ups and in need of credit facilities. Previously, hackers would just take the identity of grown-ups but with the new trend, it is even more worrying.

6. Internet Of Things

With the invention of the Internet Of Things, our way of life has been transformed. On the same note, hackers are using available facilities both at home and in the offices to access personal information. They planning of the attacks are often strategic with them striking when least expected. Once the assault happens, it is mostly very catastrophic.

7. Cyber Espionage

There are state sponsored cyber-attacks. China is well known to spearhead such attacks on foreign governments and corporates. The Sony Company, for example, was attacked by North Korea which brought a lot of animosity between the two countries. There are other smaller attacks on smaller corporates that are rarely reported. The lack of reporting could be that the targeted person does not even realize their systems were hacked into while others do not want to report because it may scare away clients and potential investors.

8. Entirely Unknown

Juniper software was discovered previously to have some hacker backed system way back in 2016. No one really knew about it for so long. This goes to show that hackers are always on the lookout to manipulate people and systems.