Monday, November 16, 2009 6:08 pm
Today in the age of internet, more and more people are getting inclined towards promoting their business online through website. Having a website will definitely help in getting more customers purchasing the company’s product. On the other hand, it also attracts hackers who fool around with the site, if the website is not under surveillance. Hacking is possible in roughly all the programming languages used for website nowadays.
Most popular type of hacking is the Cross Site Scripting also called as XSS which can be carried out in diverse ways, DOM-based, stored or reflected. One can protect the website from hacking by validating the inputs of the site such as page headers, cookies, hidden fields etc. Web forms’ input should all the time be HTML encrypted in order to evade any superfluous script elements.
Today in the age of internet, more and more people are getting inclined towards promoting their business online through website. Having a website will definitely help in getting more customers purchasing the company’s product. On the other hand, it also attracts hackers who fool around with the site, if the website is not under surveillance. Hacking is possible in roughly all the programming languages used for website nowadays.
Most popular type of hacking is the Cross Site Scripting also called as XSS which can be carried out in diverse ways, DOM-based, stored or reflected. One can protect the website from hacking by validating the inputs of the site such as page headers, cookies, hidden fields etc. Web forms’ input should all the time be HTML encrypted in order to evade any superfluous script elements.
Another popular hacking technique is the Google Hacking. Today most of the important search engine is Google which is used by both website owners as well as hackers; Hackers can easily gain access to unauthorized data through later exploration queries using “Google hacking”. This type of hacking involves searching on the sites using logical operators, special characters and operators such as link or site. In order to protect the website, necessary precautions should be taken by avoiding storage of any critical or sensitive data on the server; this can be done by the use of robot.txt. File.
Though it is practically not viable for a normal website possessor to avoid all hacking attempts, but it is possible to reduce them by means of some fundamental safety measures.