Modern cars are incredibly difficult to break in to and steal, so much so that thieves often find it easier to break in to a house and steal the car keys to make off with it. Hackers targeting your website are faced with a similar problem when it comes to getting access to your website.

Few hackers target the web host directly, with all the money large web hosts such as ourselves spend on security and monitoring it is simply too difficult to gain access. Instead they go directly after the webmaster by downloading a virus on to their PC and getting the FTP log in details so often stored as an unprotected flat text file within software such as Filezilla.

What do they do with the information?
Once they have direct access to your website’s files they are any number of actions they can take:
- Insert links in to your site & create link farms
- Capture your member’s information
- Links to malware
- Spread viruses
- Destroy your site

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What is the World Wide Web?

    * The Web is a network of computers all over the world.
    * All the computers in the Web can communicate with each other.
    * All the computers use a communication protocol called HTTP.

How does the  WWW work?

    * Web information is stored in documents called web pages.     * Web pages are files stored on computers called web servers.
    * Computers reading the web pages are called web clients.
    * Web clients view the pages with a program called a web browser.
    * Popular browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox.

How does a Browser Fetch a Web Page?

    * A browser fetches a page from a web server by a request.
    * A request is a standard HTTP request containing a page address.
    * An address may look like this: http://www.example.com/default.htm.

How does a Browser Display a Web Page?

    * All web pages contain instructions for display.
    * The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
    * The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
    * HTML tags look like this <p>This is a paragraph.</p>.


What is a Web Server?

    * The collection of all your web pages is called your web site.
    * To let others view your web pages, you must publish your web site.
    * To publish your work, you must copy your site to a web server.
    * Your own PC can act as a web server if it is connected to a network.
    * Most common is to use an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

What is an Internet Service Provider?

    * ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.
    * An ISP provides Internet Services.
    * A common Internet service is web hosting.
    * Web hosting means storing your web site on a public server.
    * Web hosting normally includes email services.
    * Web hosting often includes domain name registration.