subject: All About Web Hosting Safety [print this page] There is always a link between web hosting, business account and your confidential data of finance in the world of ecommerce. Be careful and watch carefully every time you log on into your web hosting control panel and take in account of all that you can access in your control panel. You can see that anything that can be customized, altered, or produced in the web hosting control panel can be accessed by hackers if the hackers break into your account. If that is accessible, then the hacker has the control over your website and can even redirect the checkout pages to their own merchant account.This effect can caused huge damage and loss to your web hosting business
A connection has always developed between the happening online activity and hard drive. This connection most of the time is being ignored by people. You have to keep in mind that every action that takes place in your web browsers will get a place in your hard drive. Even though you clear all the browsing data; for example: cookies, temporary files, however someone with powerful recovery software can possibly recover all the deleted data. You need to get rid of you data using a program that can completely delete the data that you wish to be deleted and also can secure your confidential data so that you wish not to be revealed.
There are many virus that widespread in the market, one of it is" Trojan", once Trojan gets into your computer, the hacker can get access to all the data that is not protected in your hard drive. In online internet world, there are hundreds and thousands Trojan flowing around, it is likely that you might have met it if you have your own computer.
You might wonder how Trojan works. Once Trojan has a chance to get access to your computer, it will be automatically installed into your computer by itself and it will automatically, without you even push a button, send info to the hacker (the creator of Trojan). In other words, Once the Trojan is installed in your computer, the hacker can do anything with your operating system and even make changes in it. Your computer might not recognized Trojan as harmful as it appears safe. Other than Trojan, some hackers also use key logger that can recognize every key or word that you press on Keyboard. This is how the ways that some password for your calling card or phone cardto web hosting account can be leaked and passed to the hackers.
One of the other examples is when you made a purchase of cloth online and pay by credit card. If your computer has already been download Trojan, the card detail will be automatically send to the creator of Trojan.
Therefore, you need to secure your computer in order to secure your web hosting site and your customer account in it. Even if you are not doing business online, you also need to keep your computer away and protected by hackers. The good solution to the problem of hacker is to use powerful and effective Antivirus software that is updated daily and secured.
Other than viruses, you need to protect your website against spam too. Spam is used by spammers to get traffic, however its a loss for you as it can cause the reduction of your website traffic and your website rank.
Many spams is way of work is by the help of a program called bots. The program will place comment in websites that will link to the spammers website to get backlinks. This is one of the ways that is used by spammers to increase the popularity of their website easily.
To prevent this spams commenting and get backlinks, Captcha can be applied
How Captcha is useful?
Capcha box make user to write down code in the box that is written to validate if the user is human being or its a spam. Captcha is also useful to protect user registration that is false
