When we talk about website security, many people say, why I should
care for security of my website. There is nothing worth stealing or
being hacked on my website. This is the common perception among many
website owners.
Let’s take a look at it in a more layman’s term:
Your website is an online property owned by you and it represents you or your business. Suppose you construct a couple of rooms on a plot of land you own but you do not place any valuable furniture there. It is only for the purpose of enjoying a weekend with some friends away from the city. Now, will you leave it without any security like doors, locks etc.? The answer would obviously be a big “NO”. There is always a chance that some unsocial elements might make it home for their wrong activities. Same is the case with a website.
Now, let’s talk about various scenarios where a hacker might hack your website, even though, there’s nothing worth stealing on it and how it may affect you.
Mainly there are two reasons because of which a hacker might target your website:
Security is a very vast and complicated topic. While having discussions on website security, it is often said, “We cannot make a website fully secure, but let’s make it as tough to penetrate as possible.” And we really mean it. If you search a little you would find that security loopholes are discovered many a times even in websites of major tech giants like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Sony etc.
They have best of engineers working for them but still nothing is impenetrable. But it does not mean that we should ignore security. So, understand what security flaws should be avoided so that you do not become soft targets to hackers. None of these is less or more important because your software is as secure as the most insecure piece of code it contains.
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Let’s take a look at it in a more layman’s term:
Your website is an online property owned by you and it represents you or your business. Suppose you construct a couple of rooms on a plot of land you own but you do not place any valuable furniture there. It is only for the purpose of enjoying a weekend with some friends away from the city. Now, will you leave it without any security like doors, locks etc.? The answer would obviously be a big “NO”. There is always a chance that some unsocial elements might make it home for their wrong activities. Same is the case with a website.
Now, let’s talk about various scenarios where a hacker might hack your website, even though, there’s nothing worth stealing on it and how it may affect you.
Mainly there are two reasons because of which a hacker might target your website:
- To harm you or your business. It can be done by a competitor or for some personal enmity. Although it is a rare case, you must not remain aloof about it.
- For their personal benefits and it does not matter to them who you are. This case is very common and most of the webmasters must be on a constant vigil related to it.
- If a hacker manages to hack a page of your website, he may tweak it to redirect the traffic to some other page. The main aim of this security breach is not to harm you but to get visitors to his website. But the bottom line is that you are losing visitors. Now, suppose that the redirected webpage belongs to a porn or an offensive website. This would surely harm your reputation or may invite some legal actions against you.
- The hacker may add a link/image to your webpage which says “Like us on Facebook”. The visitor will click the button to like you but, in fact, end up liking the Facebook page of the hacker’s website. The hacker gets more likes this way and you end up losing valuable followers.
- A hacker may add some malware on your webpage that triggers a download/install request every time a visitor open that particular page. This would tarnish the online reputation of your website among the visitors.
- Your website could also be used to send bulk spam emails to random users.
Security is a very vast and complicated topic. While having discussions on website security, it is often said, “We cannot make a website fully secure, but let’s make it as tough to penetrate as possible.” And we really mean it. If you search a little you would find that security loopholes are discovered many a times even in websites of major tech giants like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Sony etc.
They have best of engineers working for them but still nothing is impenetrable. But it does not mean that we should ignore security. So, understand what security flaws should be avoided so that you do not become soft targets to hackers. None of these is less or more important because your software is as secure as the most insecure piece of code it contains.
Web Design Company
http://www.indglobal.in/
Indglobal- The Best Web Development Company