It's time to stop using IE6. If your organization is still using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, just stop.
Stop it now. The marketplace is filled with credible alternatives to IE6, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you need to use Internet Explorer because it's required for compatibility with specific websites or apps, you have alternatives from Microsoft itself. IE6 was replaced with the newer, more secure Internet Explorer 7 in October 2006, more than 40 months ago. And Internet Explorer 8 was released in March of 2009, nearly a year ago.
Social Networking. Code stuff. Sharepoint. Wordpress. How to protect your website from hackers. Page 1 of 2How to protect your website from hackers Previously, we saw how hackers spend a lot of time surveying websites they want to attack, building up a detailed picture of their targets using information found in DNS records, as well as on the web and from the site itself.
This information helps hackers learn the hardware and software structure of the site, its capabilities, back-end systems and, ultimately, its vulnerabilities. It can be eye-opening to discover the detail a hacker can see about your website and its systems. The way the internet works means that nothing can ever be entirely invisible if it's also to be publicly accessible, and anything that's publicly accessible can never be truly secure without serious investment, but there's still plenty you can do. Now we're going to examine some of the steps you can take to ensure that any hacker worth their salt will realise early on that your web presence isn't the soft target they assumed it was, and to get them to move on.