{"id":418,"date":"2018-04-24T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/?p=418"},"modified":"2018-04-24T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T07:31:58","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-get-hacked-web-classic-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/what-does-it-mean-to-get-hacked-web-classic-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to get hacked? &#8211; Web &#038; Classic Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hacked&#8221; is a term you hear thrown around a lot \u2014 especially regarding websites \u2014 without much definition.<\/p>\n<p>If your website is hacked, it means a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone gained access to your account (typically via File Transfer Protocol, a.k.a. FTP). By gaining FTP access, hackers can insert their own code on your site.<\/li>\n<li>After gaining access to your site, they put malicious code in it. What the code does depends on the hacker&#8217;s objectives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Because hacking can be extra insidious, sometimes your site can get hacked without you ever realizing it. Other times, hackers will be incredibly ham-fisted and either bring down your site or replace it with an obscene message.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other unpleasant things hackers do to sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install viruses on visitor&#8217;s computers<\/li>\n<li>Redirect visitors to other sites<\/li>\n<li>Use your website to attack other websites, bringing them down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, unfortunately, there&#8217;s no LoJack\u00ae for a hijacked website, but there are a few things you can do to make sure you don&#8217;t fall victim to a hacker:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use a secure password.<\/strong> This means something better than just tacking a numeral 1 to the end of your first dog&#8217;s name. We have information in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secureserver.net\/help\/article\/6298?prog_id=ifindhost&amp;locale=en\">Keeping Your Hosting\/FTP Password Secure<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Have your site scanned regularly.<\/strong> A lot of companies offer tools that will go through your site looking for malicious\/suspicious-looking code or activity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Update your website&#8217;s software.<\/strong> If you use something like WordPress\u00ae, keeping your software up-to-date is the difference between your site running smoothly and having a site infested with malware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By being aware of the threat of hackers and taking a few precautions, you can stop your site from harming visitors and other sites around the Internet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hacked&#8221; is a term you hear thrown around a lot \u2014 especially regarding websites \u2014 without much definition. If your website is hacked, it means a few things: Someone gained access to your account (typically via File Transfer Protocol, a.k.a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,204],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-troubleshooting-web-classic-hosting","category-web-classic-hosting","tag-hacked-is-a-term-you-hear-thrown-around-a-lot-especially-regarding-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapdomainregistration.com\/cheap-domain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}