As much as the web has grown, surprisingly not a lot has changed in how websites get hacked.
The most important thing you can do in keeping the web – and your own sites and visitors – safe is to understand these unchanging truths and hold them close to heart.
Consider the Scale of Hacked Websites
1.2 billion sites make up today’s World Wide Web. Assuming a 3-second load time, continuous queries, and not a wink of rest, it’d take you over 160 years to just see every site that currently exists.
That’s a colossally large web, and it’s impossibly large to keep watch over. Google’s Safe Browsing attempts to warn users about unsafe websites. It currently delivers around 3 million warnings a day.
Of the sites scanned by our own technology, between 1-2% have some Indicator of Compromise (IoC) that signifies a website attack.
While that percentage may seem small, let’s extrapolate it across the total number of sites. It indicates that somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 million websites are currently hacked or infected. That’s about the size of the populations of New York City and Los Angeles combined.
Websites will always be a target for hackers. And the impact of a hack can be devastating to a business.
The good news? Although the threat is big, persistent and harmful, awareness of how hacks occur goes a long way to ensu ..
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