Millions of sites get hacked daily. A site is hacked when the administrator fails to implement database security measures. The hacking might be a white hack i.e the hacker is trying to test a site security or the hack might be a black hat i.e the hacker has an intention to do on your site. For instance, in this news, teen hack a school computer, the teen hacked his school’s website and changed his grade.
A common method used in hacking websites ar SQL injection. SQL injection is when the hacker input charcaters in the login box to confuse the database to produce private information.
There are free tools to test for your site vulnerability
1. HP Scrawlr is a vulnerability scanner
2. UrlScan v3.0 Beta is a security tool that prevent potentially harmful requests from being processed by web applications on the server.
3. Microsoft Source code analyzer helps to find SQL injection vulnerability
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