You could do it like this:
<a href="http://www.WEBSITE_NAME.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Open</a>
Originally was:
<a href="http://www.WEBSITE_NAME.com"></a>
Also look at the following url on MDN for more information about security and privacy:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#Security_and_privacy
which in turn has a link to a good article named Target="_blank" - the most underestimated vulnerability ever:
https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/256-targetblank---the-most-underestimated-vulnerability-ever/