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Many people often wonder what the difference is between secure website hosting and regular website hosting. Simply put, secure website hosting will afford you the ability to sleep at night, without the worry of whether or not your website or valuable information will become compromised. Even more alarming, most webmasters are often clueless when their websites are hacked. Over 90% of webmasters surveyed did not notice any strange activity when their website was compromised, despite the fact that their sites were being abused to send spam, host phishing pages, or distribute malware, according to the report Compromised Websites: An Owner’s Perspective. Perhaps more surprising, nearly two-thirds of the webmasters surveyed did not know how the compromise had happened. The Threat of Hackers The portrayal of hackers in the media has ranged from the high-tech super-spy to the lonely anti-social teen who is simply looking for entertainment. The reality, however, is that hackers are a very diverse bunch, a group simultaneously blamed with causing billions of dollars in damages. In 2011 alone, hackers were responsible for cyberattacks against the Justice Department, the FBI, Universal Music Group, The Recording Association of America, Motion Picture Association of America, Visa, PayPal, and MasterCard just to name a few.
The Internet abounds with hackers, known as crackers or "black hats," who work to exploit computer systems. They are