Website owners should understand the threat of hackers. There are so many ways to protect website from hackers that ranges from database driven PHP website to ASP and also security measures ranges from weak to strong. Here are few ways to protect the website from hackers.
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Mostly websites that are driven by SQL database are more vulnerable to hackers attack. This include any websites that have forms for search or login such as shopping carts and e-commerce. This SQL driven database are attacked by hackers through back doors through query strings, form inputs, or any text boxes that can communicate with the database. Sometimes, hackers may place hazardous scripts in the database that may even cause permanent damage and security breaches.
The hacking can be avoided by simply hacking the own website and analyzing possible ways of hacker methods. The website owners must do several hacking test so that the error will be displayed with the valuable information of the table name or column name. The best solution for hiding the private details of the website is to develop the custom error page for the website. This actually prevents the hackers from seeing the detailed error message.
The custom error page can be designed by contacting with the web host and most web host provide instructions to display the page. Other than this, website owners should manipulate their form input, query string with dummy data. Hackers malicious codes should be blocked at first level and it is better to allow safe and clean input through input validation and filtering character strings.
