Thread: Guide to Secure YOUR Web Site

I use a nationwide experienced Internet Host distributor to host it. They've entertained my site for years and I can't actually complain about their services.

I needed to give a good friend of mine access to FTP into my Web site to download a specific file. Rather than utilizing an FTP program he used IE to FTP into the site. The unusual thing is earlier I even gave him my user name and password.

The server and some sites hosted on that server were wide open for affect. He was capable to consider the System 32 Directory, passwords, etc. The good news for me is that Certified Internet Webmaster protection Professional Instructor.

a report to indicate the exposure of my Web site. That report showed that there were seven high danger exposures, four medium risks, and two low risks. It also said that it was urgent that I take quick action in fixing the protection problem of the network.

Instantly isn't this a satisfying believed, particularly since I've never interviewed the protection of my Web site? I use one of the top Web entertaining firms in the country. This problem should NOT have happened.

I reached the hosting company and they are checking into it. At one point, they said a little promotes research on my part determined that anonymous FTP is erroneously changed on your website. Then, in a later e-mail, they changed their mind I did misspeak last night when I said that unidentified access was enabled, as I could not upload any files at all, while I could view several directories and files, evidently some relatively innocuous system data files.