Cases of high profile hacks appear to have grown exponentially over recent years and even the largest companies have been victim to major hacks. The following are just some of the major hacks of 2014:
Recently, while not as big as Sony, Jamie Olivers website has been hacked into twice, exposing users to a virus embedded onto the site.
If companies like Sony can get hacked then there is a very real possibility of your own site getting hacked. This is especially true for websites running Wordpress or any other off the shelf CMS. This is not because Wordpress is inherently insecure but it is because it is the world's most used CMS and therefore it is an obvious choice for hackers. Once they find a weakness in Wordpress they should be able to exploits thousands of websites with relative ease. This issue was highlighted recently with the security flaw found in most popular SEO plug-in on Wordpress, Yoast SEO.
When we take over client websites we nearly always find very limited thought has been put into security. Most web companies are just happy churning out a design that a client likes and getting the sign off and payment as quick as possible.
The following is some of the essential procedures we follow whenever we launch a new website or take over a website. We strongly recommend any business running a Wordpress website to ask their current web designer to carry out the following procedures, do it yourself or ask us to do it for you!
If you would like help in securing your website then feel free to contact us today via our contact form or on 01253 804 510
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