I put together a lot of marketing strategies that revolve around a corporate website or microsite as a destination for visitors. A lot of effort goes into creating and executing these strategies. So you can probably imagine the anxiety I went through when one of the sites I manage was hacked.¬†I was on the phone with my hosting company, Rackspace Cloud and they walk me through the steps of cleaning out the injected data,¬†getting the site back up and running and finding the¬†vulnerabilities. I thought I had taken the proper steps to protect the site, but I was wrong and I want to share that information with you so that you can avoid that same mistake. Continue reading →