Before you read on, do a quick scan of your website with the
Free Online Website Malware Scanner to see if your site is already infected, and then please come back for the rest of the blog, or if you require assistance that might be good to get first.
Make sure you have good contact information that is easy to find on your website. As a security professional I was greatly impressed by the way Janet’s team handled this event. It only took a moment to get contact information so I could report the phish to her team. The response was swift and in a very short amount of time Janet’s team had the site taken offline for a few minutes to protect people while they cleaned things up. In a jiffy her website was up and running and I found a link to her
TEDx talk! Janet’s made it easy for me to help.
Make sure your website software is patched and that all of your security software is up-to-date. Anti-malware protection is of course essential, but running websites requires additional security tools for protection as well. Keeping up with the latest security patches is just as important.
Make sure you have a great password. Many successful attack start with brute force password guessing. Weak passwords allow these attacks to succeed with little effort required by the attacker. Believe it or not
1Fw3^*(drf!3 is not a great password. In another blog I will teach you what a great password is and how to make one that is easy to remember.
Finally, sometimes something will get past you. If your site is ever blacklisted
let Quttera help you get off the blacklists quickly. It’s what we do.