Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
When a big website like Lenovo’s gets hacked, it’s news. But most such attacks take place under the radar, at smaller sites lacking the skills or time to protect themselves. Take the legions of WordPress-based sites, which got a rude awakening last year whenmany thousands of them were hacked. Don’t be one of those sites. Even if you don’t use WordPress, you can learn important lessons from what those poor blighters have been through. The un-magic bullet: site maintenance Quickly spinning up a WordPress site on a hosted server is simpler than ever, but users need to understand that the sites require regular management. Cybercriminals and hackers are continuously looking for sites whose administrators use easy-to-guess passwords, inadvertently misconfigure the site, or fail to apply the latest patch. Earlier this year, for example, security firm Zscaler found that compromised WordPress Web sites were forwarding visitors’ login credentials to an attacker-controlled site. Last year, in one of the worst cases of serial compromise, a malicious program, known as SoakSoak, infected more than 100,000 WordPress sites using a vulnerability in a popular plugin. “The beautiful thing about these applications is that they are easy to use and make it easy to get […]
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