They are several steps you can take to ensure that you are less susceptible to being hacked. Basic steps like protecting your local machines and your web/email sever can prevent and identify potential threats. Some example steps:
Secure Access
• Ensure your passwords are a mixture of numbers, letters and symbols and are not easy to guess or found in a dictionaries with a minimum length of 10 characters
• Set your server directory permissions to a level where unauthorised users can not write or execute within the directories to compromise your server
• Ensure when you leave your computer you are signed out of any web mail on a browser to clear cookies (stored information)
Protect Files & Applications
• Password protect your computer and access to your Operating System
• Have an up-to-date Virus Scanner (AVG/Avast) and Malware program (Spybot/Adaware) to protect your local PC
• Scan your website for possible hacking code on it on a regular basis using a free testing partner such as http://www.unmaskparasites.com/.
Prepare for the worst
• Take regular back-ups of server and email messages
• Make contingency plans if any of your systems or communications fail.

This list is not exhaustive and depends largely on the business, the number of users and type of technologies used by your business/website. LikeWise Design can produce a plan specific to your company needs which can also go towards assuring that you are protecting customer data and you business infrastructure from attack.

Actions to take:
The first thing to do if your site has been hacked
• Reset all your passwords for email, ftp, server and web applications you have on your system
• Close your site to prevent spreading malware to you visitors
• Disconnect PC from network and inspect PC/s for any suspicious files or activity.
Investigate
• Identify when/where/how the attack happened (look on the file manager of your server or ftp program and see what date any files were edited)
• Check your logs on your server for when suspicious activity could have been on your site (time of day for example or unrecognised folder file paths on your server)
• Back-up existing server data (useful for interrogating and cleaning if needed and files need to be retrieved)
• Restore a back-up of the site
• Take preventative measures to prevent such future attack.

This list is not exhaustive and depends largely on the business, the number of users and type of technologies used by your business/website. Cleaning and addressing the hacking issues can be time consuming but missing some activity in the above and not identifying the issue or reason will not stop it from happening again! LikeWise Design can produce a plan specific to your company needs if an attack occurs and with our support you can be assured that we will take preventative action for future attacks.

LikeWise Design can clear up infected servers and implement security within your IT infrastructure to ensure that future attacks are prevented.
Contact us to see how we can help your business against the attack or repair your server.
We can also produce reports to provide recommendations for improvement and implement the recommendations to your infrastructure.

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LikeWise Design provides a free no obligation Quote for cleaning up your site or to complete a security report. All you have to do is give us a call or contact us and we will contact you back to gather the relevant information.

The cost of the service depends on what you work needs to be completed. We operate a fast turn around on all security issues.

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