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What are the five common attacks on websites?

Web is a very important part of your business as it contains all the data related to your customers collected through login fields, submit forms, shopping carts, inquiry and management systems. As your customers provide this data because they consider you trustworthy so it is your responsibility to keep it secure by providing proper web security.

But web portals are very prone to attacks as they are working 24 hours a day and hackers try to fetch all the data of your customers for different purposes. So it is very important to secure your web from such attacks by consulting with professionals like at TG8 Security who will make sure that you never face such an issue. Because it is harmful for your customers if their information from the data center regarding credit card, medical information or social security gets breached. The reputation of your company will also get affected and you may face serious consequences due to these brute force attacks.

Five common attacks on websites

Though new techniques of cyber crime are being introduced in the market, the strategies for attacking a web are still the same. Here we will discuss five common attacks that your websites face:

  • SQL Injection(SQLI)

This sort of attack takes place when the person who wants to attack your data enters a specific code in your form and your website is not prepared to clean that data. If this information reaches your database then the hacker will be given unauthorized access and the information on your website may get revealed, deleted or changed.

  • Local File Inclusion

This technique is not very common and is used in a very less ratios. In this type, your web application is forced to execute a file that is present at some other location on your system.

  • Cross-site Scripting(XSS)

This is the one of the most common threats used by the hackers and can cause a lot of damage to your website. In this type a wrong or malicious code is uploaded by the attacker on your website which results in your data theft. Some codes can even allow the access to your whole website and other mischievous activities can also be performed on it.

  • Distributed Denial of Services(DDoS) Attacks

In this type of attack your website is sort of parslyzed by sending bulk of requests and activities on it. This is done by using bots or compromised computers that will hinder the access of visitors to your website and they will not be able to reach your website from clients side to see what you are offering. But denial of these DDoS can save your web from such attacks.

  • Path Transversal

This usually happens if your website is not protected and results in the breach of visitors’ data and information. In this type patterns are injected into your website hierarchy and as a result the sensitive data such as configuration files, data of hard drives, credentials, configurations and data files are stolen. 

What are the sources of cyber threats?

The origin of Cyber threats takes place through different sources including an employee of your company who has abused his privililges, a terrorist group, an individual hacker who wants to collect data or even hostile nations. Phishing is one of the most common ways of cyber threats these days in which you get a dummy or malicious form from scammers who portray it as if it is an official form of some companies and you will get trapped once you fill that form.

How do I protect myself from web security attacks?

You should always seek the help of professionals for web security as these attacks are not only harmful for your clients but they can also cause a lot of damage to you as well. Here at TG8 we have a whole team of professionals who will very keenly keep on checking whether your web is facing any threat issues or not and will work to reduce risks of threats on it.  Besides this, we will make sure that your website is fully protected through web application security to avoid any such attacks in the first place.