No site
is fully immune to getting hacked, but there are some obvious things every site
owner can do to make it a bit harder for hackers to break into a web server and
add rogue links or take over a site completely. Google launched its new “Help
for Hacked Sites” series to teach webmasters how to avoid getting hacked in the
first place – and how to recover their sites if it happens.
The announcement begins
with an overview video that describes how and why sites are hacked, followed by
a video that describes how to assess what has been changed on your website, and
how to fix it. A third video offers tips on how to identify whether your
website has been hacked, as well as specific actions to avoid if you discover
malware on your website.
One particularly useful tool noted in the third video is Google’s
publicly-available website diagnostic tool. To use it, visit the following URL,
with your website appended at the end.
www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
For example, to conduct a quick diagnostic test of whether Digital Tech
Inspiration.com has any malware, you'd visit
www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=digitaltechinspiration.com
The announcement concludes with tips for preventing your website from
being hacked.
You can watch all the
videos below:
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