Posted on August 30th, 2011
There are thousands of wrongdoers on the internet, looking for a chance and a way to break into your databank and do everything they could with your websites. They have loads of opportunities, ranging from loopholes in Operating Systems to web applications security issues. If you already know that, you would never provide these wrongdoers an easy ground. Some common practices, which give hackers an easy opportunity for butting in your servers, are briefly mentioned here.
1. Easy To Guess Passwords – There are some simple things that you find difficult when you convince other people on it. For example, people notice it very easy to remember a number of songs with complex lyrics, but they won’t be able to remember a bit difficult password. Hackers generally take help from different software tools for guessing a password, but you will be surprised to know that most of the time passwords are so easy that hackers do not need these software tools.
2. Immediate Access To Root Account – One of the practices that really need to be avoided is logging in to the system through root accounts. The more you use your root account on the internet, the more are the chances of hackers to access them easily. Hackers use brute force attacks to guess your password, getting, finally, a full and immediate control of your root account.
3. Visit/Trial Accounts – Often, it is advised that you make a trial account and check on your security measures, observing if anything needed to be secured. While making this account, do not use the account log in as Visit and the password as Trial. Give them a little thought and use something a bit difficult to guess for others.
4. “Hack Me” Scripts – Some of the writings and languages are an easy target for hackers. Hackers have good command over these common languages for the fact that every second website is made using them. So, make sure your website is not formulated, using one of these languages.