Hacking is gaining unauthorized access to a computer and viewing, copying, or creating data with the intention of destroying data or maliciously harming the computer. Nowadays, hacking is a growing threat for every business-large, medium and small. Hackers can impact any business at any time by stealing private data, taking control of a computer or by shutting down its website. It is a major concern for web development companies. Hackers can attack and threaten security of a business and its website in so many ways as follow:
DDOS Attack – Distributed Denial Of Service Attack:
- In this attack, a server or a machine’s services are made unavailable to its end-users. And then hacker proceeds to compromise the website of a business when the system gets offline.
- The example of a DDoS attack is sending many URL requests to a website in a very small amount of time. This causes overflowing at the server side because the CPU just ran out of resources.
Remote code execution Attack:
- This attack takes place as a result of either server side or client side security weaknesses. This attack is mostly seen in application development companies.
- Weak components include libraries, remote directories on a server that have not been monitored and other software modules that run on the basis of authenticated user access.
- These components which are used by applications are always under attack through things like scripts, malware, and small command lines that extract information.
DNS Cache Poisoning:
- It involves old cache data that a company might think it no longer has in its computer but it is actually there.
- Hackers identify weaknesses in a domain name system (DNS) which allow them to divert traffic from genuine servers to a fake website.
- This attack is major concern for web development companies.
Clickjacking Attack:
- This is also known as UI Redress Attack commonly seen in Web development companies in India.
- The attacker is hijacking clicks that are not meant for the actual page, but for a page where the attacker wants you to be.
Cross-site Request Forgery Attack:
- This attack happens when a user is logged into a session and a hacker uses this opportunity to send them a fake HTTP request to collect their cookie information.
- Once the browser session of a user is compromised, the hacker can initiate requests to the application that will not be able to differentiate between a valid user and a hacker.
Injection Attack:
- Injection Attack occurs when there are flaws in SQL Database, SQL libraries or the operating system itself.
- Employees of application development companies open seemingly credible files with hidden commands or injections unknowingly.
- By doing this, employees have allowed hackers to gain unauthorized access to private data such as cardholder data or other financial data.
Cross-site scripting Attack:
- This attack is also known as XSS attack.
- It occurs when an application, URL “get request”, or file packet is sent to the web browser window and bypassing the validation process.
- Once an XSS script is triggered, it makes users believe that the compromised page of a specific website is genuine.
- It is a major threat for web development companies.
Social Engineering Attack:
- It happens when you disclose private information in good faith, such as a credit card number, through different communication ways such as chat, email, social media sites or virtually any website.
Conclusion:
This article is helpful for web development companies to prevent them hacked by hackers. Every business should implement countermeasures for all above attacks.
