Improve your Web Security (Prevention and Protection)

When it comes to web security there isn’t anything important than prevention. The saying goes prevention is better than cure counts multiple times more to web security as oppose to anything else. Here are few practical and highly recommended prevention tips accompanies by few protection tips that can significantly improve your overall internet security and minimize the risk of hacking.

Free sometimes comes with a price
Administering your website from a free Wi-Fi spot can be quite costly sometimes. The reason for saying this is that many open Wi-Fi networks host malicious software which can access your computer for anyone that comes along. If you really must to log than at least encrypt your connection with VPN program. Nowadays, there are plenty of free VPN programs, which can serve you just fine.

Devices you use
The downside of using someone else’s device or even go to extreme and use a public computer is that it can be infected with some malicious software which can than affect your website. Again, if you got no choice but to use someone else’s device at least first scan it with an Anti-Malware program. If all is clean you can proceed and use it.

Regular Updates
It is of great importance to keep your website regularly updated. For an example, if you use Joomla, every time new update is released you will see a notification on the main dashboard. A malicious program can much easier access outdated software. Also, it’s recommendable to make back up on your site, at least once every month.

If you are interested into advanced options on how to improve your web security guard here is something that you will find very helpful.

There is a big difference between web malware and the type of malware seen on Windows platforms. The main difference is that on the internet there are many more scripts written in various languages such as: Python, Perl, PHP, UNIX and so on. It is a really long list as oppose to compiled binaries. Those types of scripts are known as “shells” or “backdoors”. Once they found their way on your website they give unrestricted remote access.

C99 is a classic example of one such shell. Once this little bugger gets on your website the hacker will have direct access to your website content from its own browser. It also gives permission to the hacker to completely alter any of your files. That way he can delete, add or do as he wishes with your files, he can even change file permissions or dump the entire base if he wants to.

Most of the times when some web site is hacked it’s possible to find some sort of a backdoor. Usually, they are hidden in some small size file like an image/s. The reason why are hidden there is because it’s pretty easy to hide them there. If you feel that your website security have been breached by such backdoor you can try locate it and remove it. For an example, you can use SFTP or FTP to access your website and try to locate files named r57.php or c99.php. If you are lucky the hacker was too lazy to alter their names.
If web security is not your thing and you prefer to stick with business development for your business or whatever you are good at, than you might consider letting someone else (like FutureWorkz) do that instead of you. We have plenty of solutions which can maintain your web security on a high level.