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  • What happened when my website was hacked

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    A guest article from John McGarvey. He writes about subjects like IT security and web hosting for IT Donut. It all started one morning with a worrying email subject line: ‘Your portfolio page may have been hacked’. Inside was an unsolicited message from a friendly web developer, letting me know that my website’s usual portfolio… Continue Reading »

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    • How to set up Server-Side Scanning for your website

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      The new server-side scanning features are available with release 3.7 and includes the following new features within the Professional and above editions: Phishing Page Detection PHP Spam Shell Detection Webpage Defacement Detection Insecure Folder Permissions Detection .htaccess Hack Detection Website Error Reporting For detailed information on the individual features, please check out our Feature page… Continue Reading »

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      • Microsoft Hacked – Method similar to Apple and Facebook Attacks

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        Microsoft has announced yesterday via its Security Response Center blog that it has been attacked and hacked with methods similar in nature to those experienced by Apple and Facebook recently. All attacks were perpetrated by utilizing a zero-day Java vulnerability. Microsoft reported that a small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business… Continue Reading »

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        • Zendesk Hacked – Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter Users affected

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          Zendesk, the customer service software provider with 25.000 customers, yesterday announced a security breach that affects users of Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. According to Zendesk, email addresses of users who have contacted Twitter, Pinterest or Tumblr for support have been downloaded by the hackers. Wired reports passwords were not part of the breach but that some customers may… Continue Reading »

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          • Consequences of your website being blacklisted by Google

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            9.500 websites are blacklisted by Google on a daily basis due to malware infection. The malware infection are the results of a hacker attack on your website. When your website does get infected with malware there are devastating consequences: Your site gets blacklisted by major search engines, and this causes all major browsers like safari,… Continue Reading »

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            • Ten Scariest Hacking Statistics

              We hear about cyber crime and malicious hacking all the time in the news but have you ever stopped to wonder just who it affects? After all, unless we are aware (the key word being aware) that we were directly touched by cyber crime we may never know just how much of a problem it… Continue Reading »

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              • How StopTheHacker Works to Help Prevent Attacks on Websites

                Current research shows that over 85% of all malware comes from the web. This number is so high because it is estimated, by the same report, that more than 30,000 websites are infected with some sort of malware every day. And this number is not limited to malicious sites set up by cybercriminals, a majority of these sites are… Continue Reading »

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