3 Types of Website Hacks & How to Avoid Them
Ever since more traditional businesses have shifted to the Internet to conduct business due to the effects of the pandemic. There is a significant rise of hackers with more website hacks becoming more advanced than ever. To give a heads-up, here are the three types of hacks that our client’s website normally receives.?
TYPES OF WEBSITE HACKS
1. REDIRECT HACKS
What is it:?Hacks that redirect your viewers to spam websites which will sell illegal items with your URL merged with it.
Why it’s dangerous:??Your website will have the risk of suspension imposed by Google as Google may perceive your website is selling illegal items based on Google policy.?Unless you are able to show solid evidence to Google that it is not your wrongdoing, your website will never be able to operate again. All the effort in?developing the website?will be gone just like that.
2. SEO HACKS
What is it:?Hacks that may affect your SEO rankings by changing the meta title and meta description with Japanese words.
Why is it dangerous:?Google will remove your website from top rankings as it perceives your meta title and meta description to be irrelevant to the website content. Thus it will damage:
3. BLACK SCREEN HACKS
What is it:?Hacks that completely wipe out the website, leaving a black screen with devious information about the hacks.
Why is it dangerous:?The worst hack when all the consequences mentioned above and the risk of having your data leaked is a nightmare to even think about it.
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Let’s say you have encountered one of the scenarios above, there are 5 essential steps to recover your website.
5 STEPS TO CHECK YOUR WEBSITE?
1. CHECK WARNING
There is an issue if you have come across these statements, “This site contains malware.” or “The site ahead contains harmful programs.”
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2. CHECK WITH HOSTING PROVIDER
Immediately contact your hosting provider to confirm whether the hack is an actual hack or just a loss of service.?
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3. Be Mindful Of Website Blacklists
Ensure to register your website with?Google Search Console?to avoid your website from being blocked by Google Blacklist issues.?
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4. Change Your Passwords
Change all of them with different and complete wording. To ensure the password is strong, please have the combination of:?
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5. Restore Website Backup
Re-upload the backup of the website provided that the hosting account is not corrupted.?
HERE’S THE BAD NEWS…
However, at times, reality paints differently?when our contents could not be retrieved upon being hacked just like our client,?IA Essential Sdn Bhd. Thankfully, we helped them rebuild their website to resolve this unforeseen circumstance.?
We enjoyed working with the LOCUS-T team. They are very resourceful, approachable, responsive, helpful and committed. They have helped us to bring out our conceptual ideas to reality. I would highly recommend the same team that we had worked with to others for the above reasons.
Mr. Chong Kian Soon –Founder & CEO of IA Essentials?
IF YOU WANT TO BE SAFE,
Especially when your website contains crucial information, the best way is to have web maintenance?to be implemented in your website.?
Don’t have much time to explore it??Reach out to us?now, we know the best web maintenance for your website?