How to secure your website from attacks using the .htaccess file
Every website owner needs to draw up a strategy to deal with attacks such as Cross-Site Scripting, Local File Inclusion and SQL Injection which all start with transmission of hostile commands via the HTTP Request. One challenge in dealing this kind of issue is how to separate legitimate requests from those that are hostile or malicious. Further reading: How to Find and Clean Backdoors in a Hacked WordPress Site How to Prevent the most common Application Attacks against websites Website Security: A Guide For Shared Web Hosting Accounts How to Prevent an Exploitation of Your Website by An Attacker How to Fix The WordPress White Screen of Death If the website is hosted on an Apache server, there is a [...]
