Hacking does seem all the rage at the moment. Last week, almost
5,000 Australian businesses lost their website content completely
and permanently when someone hacked the server of their web host.
We also recently had the RSA incident, causing the wholesale
replacement of RSA tokens, the hacking of PlayStation's
database and domain name registry Distribute.IT, the revelation
that Dropbox is about as safe as your letterbox, and the massive
theft of other people's email addresses from Epsilon.
It is all a little bit scary, we were motivated ourselves to
find out what'd happen if our web host went down
–imagine having to recreate our awesome website!
But there are seriously existential risks at play –you
could lose your website, your customers' personal and credit
card information -basically most businesses are at ultimate risk of
losing even their whole business if the perfect hacking storm
hits.
