With the growth of the internet also came the growth of hacking. It has increased so much so that according to Zone-H there are over 2,500 recorded hacks each day. Some people may be surprised by this figure, others wont be. In my opinion that is not the surprising fact, the shocking fact is that the number of reported hacks is growing by 40% each year!!! Are the hackers getting smarter?

Generally the hackers will get in due to one of three reasons:

1. Out of date scripts – Everything from Kernels to Apache have updates and a lot of these updates are to fix security bugs. So if you are running out of date scripts with known security holes. A lot of hackers will take advantage of these holes and gain root access to your server
2. Insecure Scripts - Most of the hack attempts that we have to deal with at SeeksAdmin are due to insecure scripts such as PHPbb, VBulletin or many other common scripts. If these are not kept up to date they are very dangerous allowing a hacker to gain root access.
3. Insecure Passwords: Not much explanation is needed, if you have a short or weak password it is easier to guess and it can easily be brute forced.

So what can you do? Well keep everything up to date, and use a decent password? It wont ensure that you are 100% secure however it will go a long way to stopping you being hacked.

At the moment SeeksAdmin is concentrating on security and we are trying to raise awareness in security and how to keep your system secure. In accordance with this we are offering a FREE remote scan and a $5 local scan. After these scans you will receive the security holes in your system and we will recommend a few things you can do to help secure your system. We also have free security consultation so if you have any questions please contact us at sales[@]seeksadmin[dot]com