Zero-day attacks, what does it mean?

You see it more and more often in news articles these days, zero-day attacks carried out on companies.Now you might be wondering what exactly it means and if it will affect your hosting.

Zero-day attacks are attacks that are performed on the same day that a vulnerability is discovered. Because of this the developers do not have the possibility to fix it, malicious people like to take advantage of this.

As a user you can of course also help by, for example, informing companies about a leak if you know about it.In this way you give a company the opportunity to further address this and to solve it before it is abused.

Who uses zero-day attacks?

Most people who exploit zero-day vulnerabilities are of course criminals.They can abuse companies to leak data or even for money.

There is even a whole market for zero-day leaks, they are then sold by different people.The prices depend on what kind of leak it is and how serious it is.

Not only criminals like to make use of this, but also the government likes to use this kind of vulnerabilities.They can use it, for example, to break into a suspect's device.

How do I protect myself against attacks?

It is of course also important that you know how to protect yourself against attacks such as zero-day attacks.One of the things you can do for this is to keep an eye on the updates and run them regularly.
This applies not only to your local Windows installation but also to your web hosting, as many updates for your CMS are security updates.

You should mainly pay attention to updates of plug-ins, themes and the CMS itself, many of these updates are security updates.
For WordPress you can use Managed WordPress hosting at MijnHostingPartner. Here the updates are automatically managed for you so you do not have to spend time on this.

It is always possible that things go wrong, but you can protect yourself against this as well.If you have made a backup of all your files, you can restore them within seconds. With Managed WordPress there are daily automatic backups, you do not have to worry about this anymore.

If you have any further questions on this topic you can always check if one of our chat representatives is available.If nobody is available on the chat you can always create a ticket to our helpdesk.It is also possible to ask questions via Twitter or Facebook.