Website Security: What can we do about it?
Is your website vulnerable to hackers?
Everyday, several high profile websites are hacked as a result of a poor security practices on websites and web servers. This is the situation wherein we need to consider various factors of web security in order to ensure the safety of sensitive data such as customer’s credit card details and personal information.
Every year around the world, several high profile websites are hacked. If they can hack into the Department of Defense website, what chance does your site have to stay protected? More often than not, websites are hacked as a result of poor security practices on websites and web servers. You need to be aware of the various factors of web security to protect sensitive data like customer’s credit card and other personal information.
All programs that are running on the Internet are prone to security risks so it’s absolutely correct to say that there is no place safe from hacking on the Internet.Spammers and hackers often target delicate corporate information in order to gain access of the company’s financial information. Sometimes they are simply vandals trying to ruin a company’s reputation or cause havoc. They’re using web applications such as login pages, contact forms and shopping carts to gain access to the back end databases. It’s sad to know that these unethical acts are committed by developers and programmers who are either hypnotized by the lust of money or mean spirited individuals who have no respect to others.
As experienced Web server administrators, Web programmers and developers, we can take several precautionary measures to ensure security on our websites like creating an encrypted login page. This could prevent a malicious user from creating his own login form to access the same resource and give access to sensitive data.
Data validation must be done on the server side. You should never validate your data using javascript on the client side. It’s very easy for a malicious security hacker to create his own form to send malevolent data to the server if javascripts are inactive. Do this to keep yourself away from trouble.
As much as possible, avoid connecting from any insecure network connections, especially if you are going to access your web server
Never share login credentials. The more you share those login credentials the more you are prone to security threat.
As a simple internet surfer what can you do to protect yourself? Never download software from an unwanted pop-up window which some what like says “Hey check out my cool free softwares”. You’re just asking for trouble.
Finally, always do some extensive research about the software you intend to purchase or install.
