Article software is one of the many beneficial programs that eases the strain of article marketing.
Being left with no article software to manage the business of writing and submitting articles would break the businesses that relied on better article software support.
Many companies feel that article software (or a respected article service) is the most strategic key in article marketing.
Web site attackers understand this as well & are working hard to manipulate article software against your site.
Attackers have figured out a way to uncover a vulnerability in article directories that allows the hacker to totally hijack the entire website & code it in any way they desire.
Furthermore, every article publisher who registered an account on that hacked article directory now have their individual account information compromised and set into the hands of an unauthorized individual.
If this were ever to happen to you, the hack can not only cripple some article marketers on one article directory, but the attackers may immediately have the ability to attack accounts you registered on all article directories you use.
Why does this happen? This goes back to the era before article directories took over the internet marketing industry.
Many article directories are coded Article Dashboard PHP scripts that you can still buy nowadays on eBay for a cost of a McDonald's happy meal.
You can also obtain them free of charge if you look hard enough.
These scripts were preferred by people who wanted to have a business that brought in a second income, since the scripts only take a few minutes of your time to set up.
The site is ready to run for you with little to no coding experience essential.
Over time, those PHP scripts become out-of-date.
Because they are usually handled by site owners with interest in only generating cash, but little or no coding experience essential to protect the script, they are left exploitable for website hackers who can break into the site while the site owner can only look on in horror.
Unfortunately, the horror haunts article publishers as well.
Article software made it manageable to submit articles to a large number of directories.
A lot of software will actually help you register all of the accounts at the same time (though many times with errors).
However, when you register an account on an exploited article directory site, the attacker has account login access to all of your account information.
Since many writers use the same username and password for nearly every article directory for their convenience, the hacker also has quick access to modify, contribute to, or corrupt whatever article you ever distributed on any article directory you registered to.
However, the horror doesn't stop there either.
There are many who use the same username and password for their e-mail account and web hosting account information, which many times is filled with account information on all the things you do on the Internet.
Access to your email can come to the hacker learning financial information about you, or even your web hosting account details as well.
How can you protect against this security threat? Needless to say, it is important to use a different username & password for the article directories you register on.
Awareness from both yourself and the article software maker (and the article service provider) is very important as well.
You'll want to be assured that article software & service providers keep their article directory lists flawless & up to date.
They must be ready to mark directories using exposed scripts unguarded to getting hacked at anytime.
Their failure to hold a safe list & irresponsible mass account management can lead to the demise of your reputation & even your business.