Be Paranoid About Your Website Traffic
Tip #5
Be Paranoid About Your Website Traffic
Website hacks happen on one of two ways, from external sources or internal sources.
You’ve established strong passwords, validated user input, kept your software updated and limited viewable personal and business data. You’re paranoid and off to a great start. But now you need to monitor your website traffic.
Whether you are on a Windows Server, a flavor of Unix and Apache, all servers create several types of traffic logs. These logs can provide lots of information including smtp access, password crack attempts, and website access and error logs.
Website logs are your friends. Use them. If you don’t have access to these logs contact your hosting company and find out what they have available for your use. If your site gets little traffic, examining the logs manually will be easy. Read more…