y Hosting Service, My a common outcome of internet
Security Service: How much identity theft. Some hosting
protection does your web services may offer you a Virtual
host give you from identity Private Network (at relevant
theft...and how much can they? expense, of course) for
additional protection.
There are laws now that protect
us from identity thieves, sure, Your payment area should be
but oftentimes, by the time the completely secure, at the bare
law gets involved, the damage is minimum promising SSL digital
already done. Your website may be encryption of all incoming and
defaced. Your name may be outgoing data. You should also
sullied. Your hosting service may make sure the shopping cart your
have locked you out. You lose hosting service provides is
customers. You lose money. To compatible with the major online
recover, you have to regain lost payment processing gateways, such
ground, which also takes time and as PayPal, NETeller, Citadel,
money. But what can you do to FirePay Click2Pay, UseMyBank, and
protect yourself? And can your others.
web hosting service help?
Identity thieves will often try
In two words: they'd better. At to access your hosting service
the very least a hosting service account using the "fruits" of
in the age of spammers, their thieving. Once inside, they
hijackers, and hackers (oh my!) can hijack your domain away from
should at the very least have one you or delete important files
or more firewalls protecting your from your hosting service. If
data. They should also be able to this happens to you, one thing to
offer you protection from do is check the server logs of
Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, your hosting service to figure
out the exact date and time that address to send X-rated
the theft occurred. Note the IP material).
addresses involved in the action
and contact the associated ISP. The other immediate action to
This alone won't resolve the take if you ever suspect yourself
problem. But it's a start. of being a victim of internet
identity theft is notify your
If your email address is stolen, hosting service, your ISP, and
you may find you start receiving your domain name registrar. Any
returned messages that you appear instructions they give you,
to have sent but which you know follow. You could also file a
for certain you did not. Print police report (and probably
each and every one of those should, at least to get the crime
messages out immediately and make on record), but as it's unlikely
copies -- they're evidence. Not anything will come of it (at
only may they come in handy in least not immediately), this
tracing the source of the theft, should really only be done after
but they may be the very things you've first contacted your
that keep your hosting service hosting service, ISP, and
from terminating your account registrar.
(if, for one hypothetical
example, a thief uses your email
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