Cyber security 101: Run a website? Here's how to protect it from hacking

Protect your website even if it doesn't have valuable data, because hackers can mess it up or use it to mine cryptocurrencies and make money for themselves

Business owners run their own websites are at a high risk of having them hacked. A total of 22,207 Indian websites, including 114 belonging to the government, were hacked between April 2017 and January 2018, according to data provided by Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In). This was revealed in a recent written submission made to the Parliament by Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology K J Alphons. These numbers underline the need for business owners to grow more aware of security issues and put in place systems and practices that will make their websites less vulnerable to