Your website has been hijacked...
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by: Alice
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It is early in the morning and you are receiving one phone call after another. While you ignored them for some time, there is no way you can ignore them any more. Helping yourself to a cup of steaming coffee to take the fuzziness away from your brain you pick up the phone. What you hear strikes a punch in your heart. You had been entrusted by the CEO of your organization to take care of their website.
You had been able to prove your prowess over HTML and related coding and had proved yourself to be the pest person for the job. There had been many ooohs and aaahs when the website was finally launched. You can still remember the event though it had taken place nearly 2 years ago. What you have heard on the phone has taken the winds out of you.
People are complaining that the website of your organization, an international garments exporter, is being used to store adult movies and pirated software. What you do not know is that one of the phone calls was from the law-enforcing agency. They will be ringing you up later or might even drop in at your place. You were such a bright student yet you had forgotten the basics of protecting the HTML of the website.
There are programs available that will not allow anyone except those who are authorized, to tamper with the HTML coding of your website. Forget about tampering, they shall not be able to access that page itself. If an authorized person tries to look at the page source from the view option, they will find that the particular option has been grayed out and is inaccessible.
There have been many instances of hackers gaining complete control of a website and changing the HTML code to suit their nefarious purposes. Once they have managed to do that, they use the server hosting your company’s website for hosting their illegal files. These top of the line software helps you to protect the sources of your website from unauthorized eyes and prevents tampering of the same. There was another mistake on your part.
You did not set up a mirror site, which could be used while the main site was down. Now that you have experienced the horrors of website hijacking, it is high time you call the software agency and encrypt the HTML coding of your company’s website using their dedicated program. This act of negligence on your part might have caused the organization 2 man-days, but has left you an enlightened person.
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Web content protection is a vital issue. There is special drm software that will protect the contents of your website. The software can protect pdf files too.
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