How Can Hosting Accounts Be Easily Hacked?

Hacking of web sites and severs are on rise recently. Hacking is done by some individuals using different methods to achieve their goal. As you know hacking means an unauthorized entry or penetration into another network or computer to gain complete control of its functions. Most of the people using emails now these days are experiencing different kind of hacker attacks either through email or through unauthorized software installation or by plug in equipments. The worst part of it is that nobody will come to know that a program is doing a spying on your activity or somebody else controlling your network.

Most hackers taking advantage of your lack of knowledge about how the latest technology works and what are the latest techniques. For many people, once software is installed, they never bothered about its maintenance such as upgrading the software to have the latest features and omission of errors which occurred in the previous version of the software. Previous versions of software might have come with security lapses and the programmers taking care of it in a later stage and which is available as upgrade patches.

Hacking through email is not new. Hundreds of fraud mails are received in the spam folders every day and many of them with attachments. If you opened an attached file, it will automatically install a software in your computer mail box and from there to the mail server. It will spread rapidly across all the mail accounts and their computers. Hence its always important to first ensure that the website links you are clicking in your email inbox are secured and are not from websites which look fishy.

External hard disks, pen drives, floppy disks, games, attractive backgrounds are all will be coming with some kind of scripts which automatically installed in to your systems. Never upload a file to your server's ftp accounts from a unknown source or external media which is not scanned for virus, malware or spywares.

Use of weak passwords to remember them easily will be resulting in hacking of the system. A password which is difficult to find out contains upper and lower case characters, numbers and signs will be good. Make use of different online tools to generate a secured password which cannot be easily hacked.

Secured network is the need of the hour and regular maintenance and checks should be dome frequently to get rid of hackers, especially when your clients are engaged in ecommerce.