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Is your website vulnerable to hackers? Hackers, malware and automated hacking bots are everywhere on the Internet, and chances are they will run across your site at some point. Here are some tips to make your website more secure. Password management Never use dictionary words as a password. Automated systems trawl the web trying hundreds of... Read more

Do I need website security? Did you know that over 9500 websites are hacked every day? Hackers and spammers either force entry into your secure web-server or sneak in through out-of-date software, bad permissions and poorly written code. Then, they insert infected code into the back end of your website. This can cause issues for... Read more

Part 2: Hacked websites - precautions to minimise risks Having your website hacked is a terrible thing, with many website owners clueless to why it happens. Implementing proactive measures to prevent or at least mitigate your website from being hacked will help to relieve some of the stress. Firstly you need to have the attitude of it’s not a... Read more

Part 1: What you need to know about hacked websites When developing a website for your business, it is important to remember that your website is never safe and is prone to being hacked. Although there are billions of websites on the Internet many assume that they have a small to zero chance of being hacked - this is not... Read more

What you need to know about DDoS attacks So what is a DDoS attack? There are many types of actual DDoS attacks; however for the purpose of this article we will summarise them into two broad categories. The first scenario is somewhat rare, the attack relies on sending a piece of information to a targeted server, trying to... Read more

Police arrest the DistributeIT hacker Australian Federal Police have arrested a 25 year old man from regional NSW who operated under the name "Evil" and was allegedly responsible for the successful hack into DistributeIT's systems, which not only disrupted the business operations of thousands of SMEs but resulted in the loss of 4,800 websites from... Read more