{"id":3561,"date":"2017-03-22T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:36:11","slug":"hacked-websites-rise-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/03\/22\/hacked-websites-rise-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacked websites on the rise: Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t expect this trend to slow down. As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hackers will continue to capitalize by infecting more sites,\u201d Google said in a post on its webmaster blog.<\/p>\n<p>Google, which inserts security warnings when it detects hacked sites, said most of those warned can clean up their pages, but that 61 percent are not notified because their sites are not verified by the search engine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs always, it\u2019s best to take a preventative approach and secure your site rather than dealing with the aftermath,\u201d the blog said. \u201cRemember a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news comes amid growing concerns over cybersecurity in the wake of massive hacks affecting Yahoo, the US government and major e-commerce firms.<\/p>\n<p>Google said certain website hacks often follow similar patterns \u2014 some insert \u201cgibberish\u201d on a page, while others create Japanese text that links to fake brand merchandise sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHacking behavior is constantly evolving, and research allows us to stay up to date on and combat the latest trends,\u201d Google said.\u2014AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3562,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions\/3562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}