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Protect your website with your ethical hacking knowledge
The first cause for websites being hacked is the lack of knowledge of their webmasters.
Hackers or even wannabe hackers can modify your website home page, steal your website profits and fame by just using ready to be downloaded exploits published into trusted and untrusted internet security portals.
Whether you have a basic knowledge of web site publishing or you are an experienced webmaster the only thing to protect yourself from hackers attacks is ethical hacking.
Ethical hacking means understanding your enemy mind, skills, intentions and strength, up to take the successful countermeasures that will save your daily hard job into developing a successful and trusted web platform.
Image damages causing shareholders and customers complaints, not to mention 6 figures money loss, is what led many big corporations to hire dozens of ethical hackers to keep their networks and web site safe from “bad” hackers.
In this article I am going to focus on the following two questions: What do ethical hackers do? What can I do to protect my website if I am not an ethical hacker?
The first step taken by hackers, should they be ethical or evil, is to scan your web application for known vulnerabilities. This can be achieved through a penetration testing process that can be manual or automated by some programs and scripts. This is the most important and crucial task in every attack attempt. And this is what an ethical hacker can’t fail.
The second step is to get a working exploit to take advantage of the vulnerability found in step 1. Here is where protection and fixes should take place to *prevent* the attack and not to just cure after the disaster. Ethical hackers in this case would be able to modify source codes to cover the holes or just reduce the success rate of the attack dramatically.
I would strongly advise to work on the first step since it is the most simple to master whether you’re not expert into security field or you just don’t have enough money to hire an experienced ethical hacker.
Internet security knowledge is what can save your site with a very cheap price. At the most basic level this can be achieved by keeping yourself informed on your websites scripts well-known vulnerabilities, available patches and security best practices.
Moreover the understanding of basic attacking vectors like Cross site scripting or SQL Injection will keep you safe from a big number of wannabe hackers that you will be able to defeat…with your knowledge! So next time you will see some suspicious activity in your website log you will be laughing at it, since not a dummy tool but your own knowledge as ethical hacker will be protecting you.
Computer and Internet Security Issues that you Should Know
Using your computer and a reliable Internet connection can be the best combination for an ideal business opportunity. You dont need raise too much capital for your business venture. With just a reliable Internet connection and computer system (which, because of wide availability and usage, become cheaper), you will be able to start your business right away and earn hundreds to thousands of dollars every month, depending on the online business opportunity that you would prefer.
However, you must be aware of the miscalculations that you can commit along your online business venture, especially when you forget to prioritize the protection of your computer system from unauthorized use and data theft. Contrary to the popular belief that a small-size Internet business will make them safe from data hackers and online intruders, there is also a great risk and danger involved once you neglect to protect your computer system, especially the hacking and computer destruction activities that are increasing significantly as the Internet evolves over the years. Most small-time Internet entrepreneurs are blinded by the fact that they are not exempted from these notorious data thieves, which is not true nowadays.
According to a research conducted by AMI-Partners, almost 50 percent of small and medium-sized online businesses failed to execute even the most basic security protection, which includes the installation of anti-spyware and anti-virus programs to their computer systems. This is one of the main reasons why the Mydoom worm triumphed, affecting one out of three small and medium-sized online businesses compared to one out of six large Internet companies. This was also discovered by the ISA or the Internet Security Alliance, a non-profit organization that handles information security issues. In other words, we can conclude that even small online businesses are more vulnerable to online threats of data theft and electronic sabotage.
In fact, every small online business owner must give data and network protection more attention due to the sophistication of data thieves. These thieves have now one of the advanced software programs and hardware necessary to break into the security measures implemented by data mangers. It would be a great waste of time and financial resources if your computer is left unguarded against these advanced data thieves and online hackers. You are on the verge of losing everythingincluding your computer, which is also a valuable investment.
Thus, it is important that you should consider data security and encryption as one of your top priorities. Keep in mind that your computer system is always vulnerable to this kind of attacks, even if you are just starting up. In fact, big businesses have more chances to recover compared to small business since big business have necessary funds available to recover from mishap. On the other hand, your small business has meager funds to start with your businessand an attack will be catastrophic for your small business.
There are hundreds of software providers that came up with latest solutions to guarantee the safety of your computer system. In addition, there are also Internet security services to guarantee protection of your online data against Internet hackers. By incorporating high level of encryption technology, hackers will have a hard time intercepting the data being stored in your computer system or while it is transmitted to a certain network of computer systems.
Always explore your options. Prioritize what is important and avoid getting caught by a catastrophic incident that will shut down your small business at an instant.
Computer and Internet Security Issues that you Should Know
Using your computer and a reliable Internet connection can be the best combination for an ideal business opportunity. You dont need raise too much capital for your business venture. With just a reliable Internet connection and computer system (which, because of wide availability and usage, become cheaper), you will be able to start your business right away and earn hundreds to thousands of dollars every month, depending on the online business opportunity that you would prefer.
However, you must be aware of the miscalculations that you can commit along your online business venture, especially when you forget to prioritize the protection of your computer system from unauthorized use and data theft. Contrary to the popular belief that a small-size Internet business will make them safe from data hackers and online intruders, there is also a great risk and danger involved once you neglect to protect your computer system, especially the hacking and computer destruction activities that are increasing significantly as the Internet evolves over the years. Most small-time Internet entrepreneurs are blinded by the fact that they are not exempted from these notorious data thieves, which is not true nowadays.
According to a research conducted by AMI-Partners, almost 50 percent of small and medium-sized online businesses failed to execute even the most basic security protection, which includes the installation of anti-spyware and anti-virus programs to their computer systems. This is one of the main reasons why the Mydoom worm triumphed, affecting one out of three small and medium-sized online businesses compared to one out of six large Internet companies. This was also discovered by the ISA or the Internet Security Alliance, a non-profit organization that handles information security issues. In other words, we can conclude that even small online businesses are more vulnerable to online threats of data theft and electronic sabotage.
In fact, every small online business owner must give data and network protection more attention due to the sophistication of data thieves. These thieves have now one of the advanced software programs and hardware necessary to break into the security measures implemented by data mangers. It would be a great waste of time and financial resources if your computer is left unguarded against these advanced data thieves and online hackers. You are on the verge of losing everythingincluding your computer, which is also a valuable investment.
Thus, it is important that you should consider data security and encryption as one of your top priorities. Keep in mind that your computer system is always vulnerable to this kind of attacks, even if you are just starting up. In fact, big businesses have more chances to recover compared to small business since big business have necessary funds available to recover from mishap. On the other hand, your small business has meager funds to start with your businessand an attack will be catastrophic for your small business.
There are hundreds of software providers that came up with latest solutions to guarantee the safety of your computer system. In addition, there are also Internet security services to guarantee protection of your online data against Internet hackers. By incorporating high level of encryption technology, hackers will have a hard time intercepting the data being stored in your computer system or while it is transmitted to a certain network of computer systems.
Always explore your options. Prioritize what is important and avoid getting caught by a catastrophic incident that will shut down your small business at an instant.