| How to Prevent Your Website from Hackers? | | | | Password Protect Your Admin Folder |
| Nowadays, it’s really important to keep your | | | | You should password protect the admin folder of |
| website up-to-date, as everyday countless hackers | | | | any scripts you are using, this provides an extra layer |
| are targeting websites to steal important information | | | | of security and is highly recommended. You can do |
| from websites and servers. This is a very serious | | | | this in cPanel by clicking the Directory Protection link. |
| concern, and now I am sharing few guidelines to | | | | So You Got Hacked? |
| secure your websites and web servers from being | | | | If you got clicked that something has happened, |
| hacked. | | | | maybe some spam was sent from your account, or |
| Old scripts | | | | you found you were hosting a phishing site, the first |
| Please remember that old installations are an open | | | | step you need to take is changing your passwords. |
| invitation for hackers. So, if you have installed Joomla | | | | All of them - cPanel, email, site admin passwords, |
| or WordPress that you tried out a couple of months | | | | everything. |
| ago; please remove it. You should make sure that | | | | Next up, go through your web space and remove all |
| any script you install on your servers is of the latest | | | | old script installations, remember if you installed |
| version. It takes 5 seconds to hack an old version of | | | | plugins in your scripts (modules for Joomla |
| Joomla, upload a shell script and have total control | | | | WordPress etc) they can be hacked too! Make sure |
| over your account. | | | | they’re up-to-date too. |
| Passwords | | | | You can check the Error Logs in cPanel for suspicious |
| Never use easy to guess passwords or the same | | | | requests. Generally, a hacker leaves suspicious files |
| password more than once; if someone finds a | | | | around, so look for such files within your public_html |
| password of yours they will try it everywhere else | | | | folder. Once the files are found, take the details of |
| until they reach success. If someone finds your | | | | those files, such as date and time that the file was |
| webmail password you’re pretty much | | | | uploaded, the file name, folder it was in, and inform |
| guaranteed they’ll try it elsewhere - maybe in | | | | your web host so they can check through. Then |
| cPanel, maybe on your online banking! | | | | delete the files. |
| Cloak Your Folders | | | | Being hacked can happen to anyone at all, your |
| You should keep a blank index.html in all of the | | | | security will always depend on its weakest point. If |
| folders inside your public_html; this will make sure the | | | | you don’t keep things up-to-date and secure, |
| contents can’t be easily viewed on the internet. | | | | your site will be hacked and be used for criminal |
| CPanel has this function, check out ‘Index | | | | activity in one way or another – however, now is |
| Manager’. It’s always a good idea to keep | | | | the perfect time to stop this from happening. |
| your files and folders secret. | | | | |