According to Facebook, it faces 600,000 hacking attempts on a daily basis and on an average 30,000 new websites are distributing suspicious codes without being aware of the visitors to their sites. There is a general misconception that a site can be infected only if it is linked or have visited an adult site or gambling sites. But the eye opening truth is theses 30,000 sites are among the small business website that run their business online legitimately. The cyber criminals are using their sites distributing malicious code without their knowledge. It is also bursting the myth that only large businesses and government websites have something to serve the hackers’ purpose and we owning a small site have anything worth being hacked for.
In fact, cyber criminals use automated scanning tools to search the websites with potential security vulnerabilities to inject their malicious code and when there is a vulnerability, they happily welcome it to spread their malware. Today, despite of numerous security programs, no one can claim to be fool proof because fraudsters are always close behind. Those were the days, when hackers used to hack sites to boost their skills in their community, but as the crime have spread its wings and to grow this industry needs a large number of servers to remain undetected while they spread their criminal activities in every nook and corner. Once hackers hack the website they add spam pages to use various purposes and redirecting the users to unknown or harmful destinations is one of them. Google has recently noticed a tremendous increase in such websites that redirect users to an undesired location. There are many ways that webmasters can follow to keep their site secure from the spammers and hackers, some of them are:
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