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Hacking Into Your Website
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How does somebody hack into your website anyway? The answer: Any way they can. If a technically sufficient hacker is persistent and hell-bent on hacking into your site, they probably will. Every day the software we rely on to keep our information safe is updated, and every day new expoits are found to circumvent these updates. The internet today is alot more robust than the internet of 1995, but its still far from secure. Hacking is not what you might think it is however, and most likely the person who gained access to your site probably saw you type the password from over your sholder. That kind of hack requires 0% technical knowledge but is a hack all the same.
One thing that web developers and programmers can do to prevent access to information is to encrypt that info so that even if access is gained, the info is worthless without the key to decrypt it. SSL 128 bit encryption is the standard for online business and is considered secure since the fastest computer on earth would take a few trillion years to crack the code. Sloppily written server side applications (PHP, ASP, PERL) are also targets for hackers and every precaution should be taken when developing these applications. A server side appication provides the hacker a gateway from the web browser to the server and can be exploited in many ways. |
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