Researchers penetrate unsecured database
If you have a web store then it is obvious that you do as much as possible to make your website as secure as possible.This applies to both your website itself and its database. If these are not properly secured, a malicious user can easily extract the data.For example, there are researchers from a VPN company who extracted various data from a database of a Chinese web store.
After this intrusion, the researchers were able to view various data including orders, payment, passwords and passport information.According to these researchers, data such as passwords were often not encrypted.
As owner of a company and webshop you want to prevent this at all costs.If you use content management systems such as WordPress or Joomla then the data will be further secured.If you have programmed a website yourself then it is advisable to check whether the passwords are stored securely.
How do I secure my website?
Of course you can protect your website or hosting against these kinds of leaks, for example, it is advisable to use an SSL certificate.This will ensure that your customers trust you, but the most important thing is that your customers and users have a secure connection to your website.
It is also advisable to regularly change your passwords for both your control panel and admin account.You can also change the passwords of your database users, you do this by logging into the control panel, then click on MySQL 5.x and find the user whose password you want to change.Then you can change the password, remember to make the changes in your config file.
If you plan to change your passwords make it not an easy password, for example, use a random password generator, so you have a strong password that is almost impossible to guess.It is also advisable to make regular backups of both your website and your database, it is then advisable to save this locally.If a malicious user succeeds in breaking in then you always have a backup that you can restore within seconds.
If you have any further questions about securing your website then you can always check if a chat employee is available.If there is no one on the chat then you can always create a ticket to our helpdesk.
