Put your eyes on those common website hacks

Improve web security

 

Website security is top concerning issue of administrator and website owners. Security is the crucial key for a web-based business development. Customer and company private information protection, business prestige, customer trust, corporate stable development are all affected by website security. Web security involves not only web hosting but also many other issues.

By building a solid infrastructure, choosing good website hosting and intensifying website protection by addons, SSL Certificates or incremental extensions, you can more likely to stay away from security problems. However, no one knows what will happen in the era of technology. Each day passes with new innovation and aroused conflicts between different bases. Therefore, more leakages can be created and it is opportunities for hackers to intrude then steal information or cause dangerous destruction for your website. In addition to strong base of website development and web hosting, you should put two eyes on some website hacks. Being aware of those potential acts, you can be more active in preventing and dealing with problems when it unfortunately happens.

Improve web security

1. DDOS Attacks

DDOS is abbreviation for Distributed Denial of Services, which makes your website unavailable to Internet users by overwhelming your server with imitate traffics. A great amount of URL requests will be sent to your hosting server in short period of time, which cause stuck in your server due to out of resources. Hackers behind this DDOS attack can perform the action again and again to cause bottlenecking status to your server. Ultimately, it results in website temporarily down or interrupting a running system.

2. Injection Attacks

There are some types of injection attacks. SQL injection (SQLi) and Cross-site Scripting (XSS) are the most common destructive games of hackers. Besides, you should be aware of Cross-site Scripting (XSS), Host header injection, XPath injection or OS Command injection.

Injection Attacks occurs as a result of flaws in SQL database, SQL libraries, mail server or other operating system commands. As consequence, they can steal your private data and affect full system compromise, run arbitrary JavaScript in your browser. SQL injection can assess or change data from a database. An arbitrary files can be written to your server and give OS commands. It is very common because the action can be easily executed with fields in popular inputs such as login form, contact form, etc.

Avoid SQL injection

3. Clickjacking attacks

You may know Clickjacking under another name, called UI Redress attack. It occurs when a multiple opaque layers are created to make an user click the top opaque layer but unaware of their action. It can be triggered under a hyperlink or a button. The destruction always happen with video or movie streaming website and related to ads clicks.

More seriously, it can lead to privacy information such as credit card number of bank account password. Clickjacking attacks make your website users think that they are filling in privacy information for intended action, however, attackers are controlling the invisible frame above this.

In order to ensure website security or also prevent common website hacks, you should choose prestigious website hosting and get SSL Certificates. VPSTrust is a providers which is famous for not only server speed but also high performance in security with Free SSL Certificates for all users.