Here, I’ll talk about website security check. How secure is your website? Read on to find out.
One of the most insidious things about hackers is that they will happily hide their access to your website until they need it. We see TV and movies where the hackers “Bring it all down,” but that is not how it happens in real life. In real life, your adverts are reworked, or links are quietly added, or messages are quietly removed. Your website may have already been hacked and you know nothing about it.
Check Your Rating With Online Security Websites and Extensions
Try running a program like Web Paranoid on your website to see what they think about your website. If they are noticing indicators that your website is vulnerable, then this is a sign you may have problems. Sometimes, the threat comes from completely unexpected places, such as if your website has been put on lists used by comment spam bots. Or, perhaps there was an attack coming “From” your website that you didn’t know about, and now you have been blacklisted on online servers without your knowledge.
It’s a Numbers Game
You have probably heard the old saying about how if a hacker really wants to get into your website, they then are going to get into your website. Yet, unless you are running a large website that is full of customer data or easy money, then the hackers are not going to try too hard. They are looking for easy success, and for them it is a numbers game. They are looking for websites that haven’t updated their content management system recently, haven’t updated their plugins, have downloaded compromised plugins and so forth. In many cases, you need to do the bare minimum, keeping things updated, keeping passwords complicated, running a few malware checks, and your website will probably be fine.
Check Your SSL Protocols
These days, most websites are SSL protected because Google has started showing warning pages before letting people enter non-SSL protected websites. These days we are even seeing web hosting and managed hosting companies offer SSL as part of the package (rather than as an extra). You can check up to six SSL protocols, those being SSLv2, SSLv3, TLS 1, TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, and TLS 1.3. Though, you should take advice on which protocols you should be using.
Have You Been Classified As Malware & Phishing
Run a security checker and a reputation checker like Web Paranoid to see if your website has been classified as a malware or phishing website. Though, you can do a lot to check yourself. Use another person’s phone and a different person’s PC and try to access your website. Access it through Google and through a direct link. The web browser may claim your website is malicious, or the Internet service provider may have marked you as malicious, or the search engine may have marked you as malicious. The sad part is that you may not have been hacked, you may have been marked as a malicious website because of an advert you were running or an information-catching plugin was not secure.
Blacklist-Status
Again, you are going to need an online checker to figure this out because it is hard to tell. You could have been blacklisted based on your domain, IP, mail server, or name server. This may have happened for a bunch of reasons. You may have been hacked and have malware on your website. However, one of the most frustrating reasons is that an email or social media company has sent out a bunch of emails pretending to be you, and the spam checkers and online crawlers have mistaken this activity as genuinely yours. People may have even reported you because they saw your information on messages and assumed you were the one doing the spamming. It’s unfair, but it happens.
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