This is so disturbing. I don’t have any concrete data to say definitely something is going on. But two reports of website hacking in less than 3 days by two different people is not a coincident.
One of my clients (and friend) also reported that the hacking cost her more than inconvenience. She’s restored her site. But now, when someone clicks on her website from Google search results, they get a big, awful notice that her site contains malicious code. The other person has some weird foreign forum on her site now. I feel outraged for them.
What you can and should do:
- Backup, backup, backup your websites. Don’t know how? Here’s a video. Don’t want to do it yourself and want to keep a copy somewhere other than your office? Outsource your backup.
- If you have no need for FrontPage extensions, don’t install it.
- Update all your scripts including blogs.
- Change your webhost control panel logins regularly.
- Use RoboForm to keep up with your logins and share them securely. If your assistants and webmasters don’t have RoboForm, buy them a copy.That’s what I did last Christmas. As a gift, I gave everyone I was working with a copy of RoboForm. Now, I assign a special passcode to them and when I need to send them login details, I package it up through RoboForm and email it as an attachment.
It’s encrypted and even if the email is intercepted, they’ll have the additional task of cracking the passcode. You can download a free trial here.
I can’t guarantee you these action steps will keep your website in a vault and you’ll never ever be hacked. However, you will minimize your vulnerabilities and put stumbling blocks in their path to slow them down. That could make all the difference.
