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Nowadays, every business has at least one website. New websites appear on the internet more and more, but the security of the website has not been performed 100% effectively. The evidence is that the system of BKAV, Vietnam's leading security company, was also attacked, causing significant losses in August 2021.
According to the website CyStack Attack Map, on average, one website is attacked every minute in the world.
Website Statistics Hacked in October 2021
Hacked websites will have a huge impact on businesses. Can be mentioned as:
When the Website stops working, the business will be "paralyzed". This can directly affect the customer experience or operating process of the company, causing huge damage to the business's revenue.
These losses are especially greater for e-commerce companies, whose business is mainly conducted through the website.
Any business that performs SEO marketing activities must be aware of the importance of “website health”. Whether the website meets the standards of credibility, longevity, and good content quality, greatly affects the results of SEO activities.
Not to mention that after working hard to get an article to the top of Google searches, it attracted a lot of traffic from customers, but the website was stolen. This causes businesses to lose connections with customers, losses in both revenue and expenses spent on SEO.
Personal information and credit card information of customers is always a sensitive issue. Losing trust in customers is a way to kill your business.
The brand is a factor that helps customers love, trust, and be loyal to the product. The hacked business website will cause customers to re-evaluate your credibility and professionalism. This will make them no longer trust and continue to use your services and products.
When the system or Website is hacked and sabotaged, it is likely that the business will have to reset the entire system and build Website content from scratch.
Imagine Your Website is a travel blogging website, which has hundreds of articles and stable visits over the years. Attacked, the attacker deletes all content on the Website. Your effort to write for years for years disappears and cannot be recovered. You also have to hire a programmer, redesign your Website, and start from zero.
The cost and effort you have to spend to handle after being attacked is impossible to measure.
Maybe you are interested in Building a secure website with 7 simple techniques
A brute-force attack is an old but still extremely effective attack method. An attacker uses a tool that generates passwords and logs in continuously until successful. That's why passwords that are meaningful or too simple are easy to detect. Example: iloveyou, 123456, abcxyz,…
Setting stronger passwords, including uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters,... is a simple way to secure your website against password detection attacks. For more safety, enable two-step Authentication.
Enabling additional authentication with a phone number or email is always one of the easiest and most effective methods of preventing attacks.
Install HTTPS now. It ensures the transfer of data from the website to the server is secured. It's not only good for web security but also good for SEO and business reputation.
Data is always the most important thing on the Website. Even under attack, you can easily recover data, if your website is regularly backed up automatically.
The human factor plays the most important role in website security. There is no security way to avoid the company's own deliberate disclosure of data. Therefore, the business needs to clearly decentralize for people who can access the company's data on the system.
SQL Injection attacks are when an attacker uses a web template field or URL parameter to gain access to or manipulate a victim's database. This can be easily prevented by always using a parametrized query.
The files may contain malicious code that is dangerous to the system. Uploading a file is an extremely dangerous action, even simply when a user wants to upload a profile picture.
If it is forced for the user to upload the file. Limit the types of files that users are allowed to upload. Another simple way to save the uploaded files to the same folder and set the permissions for this folder as “Not executed”.
Above are the most basic website security methods. In addition, there are many ways to secure the website for more complex security vulnerabilities. If you need to read more about website Security, visit Rabiloo's Blog Channel.
Once again, always be careful with your website. Regularly check the security capabilities of your existing system, or develop a new website with absolute security.
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