Hackers

Is it just me or has there been a massive increase in websites going down for extended periods due to hacker activity? In the past 2 weeks 3 of my favourite sites (all of which are non-commercial) have been hacked for no apparent reason other than they could. One site didn't have any meaningful backups and was effectively destroyed.

I've no idea how these bastards go about it or if my host is in danger but it's got me worried. I don't backup any of this nonsense up and would be no loss to anyone except to me but I feel uneasy about it. I've seen stories of major companies getting hacked and that would led me to beleive there is no real security you can apply and if the script kiddies or Russian Mafia gangs want to target you they will. Do commerical ISPs backup your data, do they have multiple layers of security on their(our) servers? Questions, questions.

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