How Hackers Deface Website? ANONYMOUS TIM3
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WHAT IS WEBSITE DEFACEMENT?
Web defacement is an attack in which malicious parties penetrate a website and replace content on the content on the site with their messages.
Today, we shall see how hackers deface any website.
Most websites are store in a data environment or configuration files, which affects the content displayed on the website. Specifics where templates and content are located.
An unexpected chance to these files can mean security compromise and might single of defacement attack.
COUSE OF DEFACEMENT ATTACKS INCLUDES :
• SQL injection
• Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS)
• DNS-Hijacking
• Malware Infection
• Unauthorized Access
SQL Injection: SQL injection is a common attack that uses malicious SQL code for back-end database manipulation to access information.
This information includes sensitive company data, user lists, and customer details.
CROSS SITE SCRIPTING (XSS): Cross-site scripting is common to attack that injects malicious code into a vulnerable web application.
XSS differs from other web attacks. (e.g SQL injection)
DNS HIJACKING: Domain Name Server (DNS) hijacking in which DNS queries are incorrectly resolved to unexpectedly redirect users to malicious sites. To perform the attack, Hackers either install malware on the user computers, take over routers.
MALWARE INFECTION: Malware refers to malicious software penetration dispatch to infect individual computers or an entire organization's network.
WEBSITE DEFACEMENT PREVENTION :
• Never use the default name for your admin directory.
• Limit the use of add-ons and plugins.
• Avoid displaying overly detailed error messages on your site.
• Ensure that user-uploaded files never have executable permission.
• Always enable SSL/TLS on all website pages.
• Regularly scan your website for vulnerabilities.
• Ensure that all forms or user inputs do not allow the injection of codes.
• XSS enables an attacker to embed scripts on a webpages
• Use firewalls to prevent Dos & DDOS attacks.
• Encrypt your API key with a good cryptography algorithm.
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