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Why Would Someone Hack My Website?

SiteLock

Luckily Howard kept frequent backups of the church’s website. Website attacks can destroy site content, so backups are crucial to recovering damage. Julia’s eCommerce Site Goes Down In Style. In addition to a WAF, Julia should use a website scanner for her eCommerce site to detect any vulnerabilities hackers can exploit.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Not restore from a backup, because other parts of your system may be doing other things. When was the backup made?