Today, I released a new open source, free tool that will hopefully help everyone in the fight against having their sites hacked. Here’s the info on the MonitorHackdFiles tool.
We all take in about how often people’s sites get hacked. that tool won’t stop that from happening, but here’s what it *will* do.
Let’s say a hacker places some malicious cipher in either some existing files on your site, or in new files on your site. Regardless of which method he used, he got in and accomplished his goal. Now, unbeknownst to you, your site is either:
1) serving hidden hyperlinks to unsavory places
2) or redirecting just search users to unsavory sites that is thereupon infecting those users’ computers with malware
3) or some other equally nefarious thing.
Either way, you’re site is toast, even whether it looks perfectly normal to the naked eye. You may have no concept anything has happened until one day (maybe weeks later) you realize that you’ve been kicked out of Google’s SERPs (search listings).
Now you frantically start trying to find out why, and possibly, whether you’re lucky, you realize you’ve been hacked. thereupon you have to start the process of finding the files with the malicious cipher. Good luck with that!
That’s the basic problem. My new tool will help with that problem to some extent.
What it won’t do…it won’t prevent the attack. There are other things you should be doing/using to help win that battle. But whether you lose that battle, and the attack happens, my tool kicks into gear.
My tool, called MonitorHackdFiles, is like a sentry for your site. It watches your site, and when it detects a file has changed (or been added), it notifies you via e mail and tells you which file(s) was changed. Now you know very quickly that you’ve been attacked, and you can react just as quickly. Now you can take whatever measures are needed to lock the site down, and with luck, you’ll avoid ever having that malicious cipher show its ugly face to Google, other search engines, or users.
It’s entire goal is to watch and inform. What you do with the data is entirely up to you. But what you don’t know, CAN hurt you.
Download the MonitorHackdFiles script for free, run the 5 minute install, and let it guard your site for you automatically.
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