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Photo by <\/span>Sora Shimazaki from <\/span>Pexels<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\nWhile it’s virtually impossible to fully understand what cybercriminals are plotting, knowing their usual tactics will help you be more prepared to avoid their attacks. To date, here are some of the most common types of website attacks and what you can do to prevent them from happening.<\/p>\n
1. Fuzzing<\/strong><\/h4>\nAlso referred to as fuzz testing, fuzzing is a type of website attack that deliberately crashes an application or website by overloading it with a large amount of fuzz or random data. Once the crash happens, the attacker will then use a dedicated tool to help identify the vulnerabilities of the website of interest. Should the attacker find a weak spot in the website’s security, they will then take advantage of it.<\/p>\n
To keep any fuzzing attempts at bay, be sure that your security and other applications are up to date because, more often than not, patch updates come with security fixes that can withstand most fuzzing attempts.<\/p>\n
2. Zero-day attack<\/strong><\/h4>\nThis type of website attack is similar to fuzzing, except it doesn’t need to identify specific security weak spots. In general, there are two possible ways in how the zero-day attack is carried out \u2013 the attacker considers the security fixes that come with a patch update so that they can find a workaround before the update is deployed, or they can take any information about the update and target those who haven’t received the security patch yet.<\/p>\n
Like the solution to avoid fuzzing attacks, it’s a good idea to run an update for your system as soon as its publisher releases a new version so that the zero-day attack cannot occur.<\/p>\n
3. Man-in-the-middle attack<\/strong><\/h4>\nIf your website is yet to be encrypted, take heed because you are very much susceptible to the man-in-the-middle attack. Websites that aren’t encrypted travel from the user to the server. Amid this process, the attack collects sensitive information<\/a> for the attacker to exploit.<\/p>\nTo keep this attack from happening to your website, an SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate will be effective in making sure that all information from both the website and the user is encrypted. The presence of SSL certificates<\/a> can be determined if the website URL begins with HTTPS instead of just HTTP.<\/p>\n4. Distributed Denial of Service attack<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe DDoS<\/a> attack is unlike the previous ones on this list because it doesn’t just make it past various website attack security measures. Still, it will render the entire website offline temporarily or permanently as a result. These are done by overwhelming the website server with many requests using a botnet, making it unavailable for users who are trying to access it.<\/p>\nThe solution that will help prevent a DDoS attack has multiple steps. First, you need to use a Content Delivery Network or CDN, a load balancer, and scalable resources to diminish the large number of requests sent by the attacker to the website server. After which, a web application firewall needs to be installed as a preventive measure if the DDoS is used to mask another website attack.<\/p>\n
5. Injection attacks<\/strong><\/h4>\n
This type of website attack is similar to fuzzing, except it doesn’t need to identify specific security weak spots. In general, there are two possible ways in how the zero-day attack is carried out \u2013 the attacker considers the security fixes that come with a patch update so that they can find a workaround before the update is deployed, or they can take any information about the update and target those who haven’t received the security patch yet.<\/p>\n
Like the solution to avoid fuzzing attacks, it’s a good idea to run an update for your system as soon as its publisher releases a new version so that the zero-day attack cannot occur.<\/p>\n
3. Man-in-the-middle attack<\/strong><\/h4>\nIf your website is yet to be encrypted, take heed because you are very much susceptible to the man-in-the-middle attack. Websites that aren’t encrypted travel from the user to the server. Amid this process, the attack collects sensitive information<\/a> for the attacker to exploit.<\/p>\nTo keep this attack from happening to your website, an SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate will be effective in making sure that all information from both the website and the user is encrypted. The presence of SSL certificates<\/a> can be determined if the website URL begins with HTTPS instead of just HTTP.<\/p>\n4. Distributed Denial of Service attack<\/strong><\/h4>\nThe DDoS<\/a> attack is unlike the previous ones on this list because it doesn’t just make it past various website attack security measures. Still, it will render the entire website offline temporarily or permanently as a result. These are done by overwhelming the website server with many requests using a botnet, making it unavailable for users who are trying to access it.<\/p>\nThe solution that will help prevent a DDoS attack has multiple steps. First, you need to use a Content Delivery Network or CDN, a load balancer, and scalable resources to diminish the large number of requests sent by the attacker to the website server. After which, a web application firewall needs to be installed as a preventive measure if the DDoS is used to mask another website attack.<\/p>\n
5. Injection attacks<\/strong><\/h4>\n
To keep this attack from happening to your website, an SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate will be effective in making sure that all information from both the website and the user is encrypted. The presence of SSL certificates<\/a> can be determined if the website URL begins with HTTPS instead of just HTTP.<\/p>\n The DDoS<\/a> attack is unlike the previous ones on this list because it doesn’t just make it past various website attack security measures. Still, it will render the entire website offline temporarily or permanently as a result. These are done by overwhelming the website server with many requests using a botnet, making it unavailable for users who are trying to access it.<\/p>\n The solution that will help prevent a DDoS attack has multiple steps. First, you need to use a Content Delivery Network or CDN, a load balancer, and scalable resources to diminish the large number of requests sent by the attacker to the website server. After which, a web application firewall needs to be installed as a preventive measure if the DDoS is used to mask another website attack.<\/p>\n4. Distributed Denial of Service attack<\/strong><\/h4>\n
5. Injection attacks<\/strong><\/h4>\n