Ways to Hack A Website

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.