24-hours a day, 7-days a week, 365-days a year (366-days in a Leap Year like 2012), hackers are hard at work.
A recent survey (done by StopBadware & Commtouch) of 600 website owners who’s websites had been hacked found:
- 63% did not know they had been hacked.
- 20% were hacked because hackers exploited out of date or insecure software on their site.
- 12% were hacked because the computer used to update their website was infected with a virus or malware.
- 9% were convinced they were hacked as part of an all-out attack on the server where their website was hosted.
- 6% said their username/password (or their colleague’s) was used to access their website.
- 2% used a public computer or public WiFi network at an internet cafe to make changes on their website.
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