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How to Avoid Website Hackers, and What to Do When Hacked

 Here's a dirty trick that's happening to more and more businesses each day. Your company homepage gets hacked and is injected with a malicious code designed to install on a visitor's browser. Google and other search engines then list your website as dangerous, and people visiting your website are experience warnings from their browsers, spam blockers, and anti-virus applications. Essentially, your online business is toast. And now you are open to liability if anyone had recently visited your website and can prove your website infected their system. Maybe your small business has hundreds of computers across multiple locations. Now you will have to worry if any of these computers have been infected. And in some cases the only way to make 100% sure that the infection has been removed is to do a complete reinstall of the operating system. Types of Infection Most of these infections are activated by a link that launches when an infected website is visited, unpacking a Java Scri...
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Professional Computer Hacker - Best IT Jobs of 2011 Series

 Introduction Hacking represents an interesting conflict of interest in the technological world today; on the one hand it is the bane of life that is a major threat to important data while on the other it is used extensively to maintain security and position by numerous firms. In the light of the latter, hacking has its advantages to the world of technology and is thus becoming a popular career choice. Sadly, the image of a hacker is greatly exaggerated and many look to it as a glamorous career choice that gives them power over the world: the reality is far from it. A hacker needs to be familiar with numerous computer languages and codes to be able to prove his worth and this takes a great deal of dedication and effort. Reality 101 First, you need to understand the difference between a 'hacker' and a 'cracker'. Crackers conform to the traditional image of hacking as they steal information from computers by breaking the security barriers. Crackers gain unauthorized acces...
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