How Safe Is Your Website? [Infographic]

It’s time. Your website needs a health checkup. Sure, you could wait…if you want to increase your potential in being among the 648,000,000 websites reporting problems related to hacking and tampering.

Complete a brief checkup now. Are you committing one of the following, unsafe actions?

• Using cheap hosting services
• Leveraging badly-coded third-party extensions
• Keeping poor or weak log-in passwords for executive credentials
• Hosting out-of-date platforms, extensions, plug-ins, or third-party services

Joomla and Wordpress (48% of web’s 100 most-popular blogs use) are well-liked content management systems. Hackers are well aware, exacting the following, nefarious actions of the CMS of choice:

• Script injections, embedded on your website by third-party downloads
• Bypassing normal authentification pathways, gaining FTP and other info
• Malware-like threats, most visible to search engines like Google, which may label your site as ‘compromised’
• Redirects, affecting prime as well as sub domains

Don’t fall victim to an array of threats influencing the livelihoods and operations of webmasters of all industries.  A number of protection services and options made available to users include:

• Verify your website using Google Webmaster Tools
• Use a secure hosting service
• Keep PHP extensions up-to-date
• Backup the information on your website
• Log network traffic, better enabling hacker identification
• Use scanners, regularly checking for breaches and instances of hacking

It can happen to any website at any time. In 2012, Thomson Reuters become a victim due to something as obscure as an outdated Wordpress plugin. Don’t be the next victim; be proactive, read the following information.

Infographic by WhoIsHostingThis.com