In the world of ecommerce there is very close connection between your web hosting business account and confidential financial data. So next time whenever you log into your web hosting control panel take a count of all the you access in your control panel. Anything that can be modified, changed or created in your hosting control panel would be accessible to hackers if they penetrate in your account. In other words they can take your website and even redirect checkout pages to their own merchant account. So we can just not imagine the amount of damage that can occur.
Web Hosting Security and your Hard Drive
There is a connection which exists between hard drive and the online activities taking place. This fact is overlooked by people. Whatever action takes in your web browser gets stored in your hard drive. In spite of clearing all the browsing data i.e. temporary files and cookies, it gets stored in your hard drive which can be recovered by someone using very powerful recovery software. To get rid of this problem you need to use a program that will completely delete your files and your confidential data doesn’t gets leaked. In order to access someone’s hard drive without their permission, Trojan can be installed on their computer.
Trojans and Key loggers
In the world of internet there are thousands of Trojans flowing and you must have personally encountered with it if you own your computer for more than a year. Once Trojan has entered into your computer, it gets installed and sends all the information to the creator of the Trojan and then the creator can play with your operating system and can make changes in your registry. So even before you know about this your CPU usage might show up to 100 percent though it was ideal. This is because of the reason that hackers were using it to carry out their remote tasks. Some hackers even use key loggers with the help of which they get to know about even a single key that you press on keyboard. Thereby they have got all the information of your all passwords from online banking to hosting account credentials. For example; you are booking discount hotel offers online. When you finished typing in the credit card details the Trojan will automatically send the username and password to the Trojan creator.
Securing your Hosting account by securing your computer
To secure your web hosting account the very first thing you should do is secure your computer. You need to keep your hard drive safe by protecting it from intruders even if you are not into online business. To tackle the above mentioned problems you should use a powerful antivirus which doesn’t allow virus to come.
Danger of Spam
Spam is a threat as it contains integrity and validity of your website. If your website is flooded with spam content than it will cause in the reduction of traffic and can even reduce your ranking. Many spammers place comments on web pages which in turn link to their website to gain the backlinks with very little efforts. They don’t do this manually but with the help of program called bots. To get rid of bots to stop spammers commenting on your side Captcha can be used.
How Captcha is useful?
Captcha is an image verification to see whether someone is real person or not. Captcha box prompts user to write down the code in the box according to the visual seen to verify whether a genuine human being is sitting in front of computer or not. Moreover Captcha is useful from protecting from false user registrations.
