Secure your website: analyze it regularly
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:32 am
Set up a security scanner for your website when you create it. Security scanners scan your site both internally and externally to ensure there are no known vulnerabilities. Additionally, it will check your website for viruses.
A good scan will look for things like Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can allow your site to be used in attacks on other sites or in attacks against the user themselves.
Cross Site Scripting is a type of website security vulnerability that allows content to be home owner data injected into a page, thereby causing actions on web browsers visiting the site.
Beware of fraud related to your website
That's it, your site is created. Make sure that all emails claiming to come from your site, actually do. If you have no memory of how an email was set up on your site, check the headers, look at the exact URL of the link in the email, and finally quarantine it using your antivirus software.
Indeed, it is not uncommon for hackers to use the sending of fraudulent emails in order to try to access a website. Most of these attacks come from servers over which you have no control. As a result, it will not be possible for you to stop this type of sending.
A good scan will look for things like Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can allow your site to be used in attacks on other sites or in attacks against the user themselves.
Cross Site Scripting is a type of website security vulnerability that allows content to be home owner data injected into a page, thereby causing actions on web browsers visiting the site.
Beware of fraud related to your website
That's it, your site is created. Make sure that all emails claiming to come from your site, actually do. If you have no memory of how an email was set up on your site, check the headers, look at the exact URL of the link in the email, and finally quarantine it using your antivirus software.
Indeed, it is not uncommon for hackers to use the sending of fraudulent emails in order to try to access a website. Most of these attacks come from servers over which you have no control. As a result, it will not be possible for you to stop this type of sending.