The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is increasing on a daily basis, and it’s only going to get worse.
It’s safe to assume that if your website or blog hasn’t been hacked yet, then it’s only a matter of time.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com began reporting that 162,000 WordPress web sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites and blogs are hacked every year! Could yours be next?
(Screenshot: BlogDefender.com)
According to the Cnet report,
“With some old-fashioned trickery, hackers were able to get more than 162,000 legitimate WordPress-powered Web sites to mount a distributed-denial-of-service attack against another Web site.”
(Source: cnet.com/news/ddos-attack-is-launched-from-162000-wordpress-sites)
As reported by security firm Sucuri, hackers had leveraged a well-known flaw to attack unsuspecting WP websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyber-attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that the information in your site offers no value to hackers, but the reality is that all websites are valuable to a malicious user.
If a hacker can find a web software vulnerability, the web site can then be used as a “bot” in a planned cyberattack against other highly-valued web sites.
The reality is that malicious bots are most likely searching for security weaknesses and trying to break into your web site as you are reading this page right now. Whether they will be successful depends on how challenging you can make it for them to continue persisting until they can either find how to get access, or give up and go look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information About Your WordPress Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(WP Security Check Source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the check returns various results and information about your site setup …
(website security scan results. Source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using this tool that if you can see all of this information about your blog, so can hackers.
(Source: Blog Defender)
The ability to see which version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed on your site, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories in your site can be valuable information to hackers, as this informs them about any exploitable vulnerabilities, especially where site owners haven’t updated their sites.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your web site and make your site invisible to hackers and bots.
Blog Defender Security Solution
Product Description
The product is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, WordPress plugins and tools, plus WordPress security documentation in PDF and DOC formats.
Matt Garrett, the creator of BlogDefender began looking for a way to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress-driven site he set up for his mother got hacked into. This particular site had literally nothing to offer, yet it still was hacked.
Matt only became aware of what had happened after being contacted by his host and seeing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred inside his server, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into his mother’s site.
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
Matt’s experience should be enough to convince you that all websites have value to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where the security weaknesses in your WordPress site are …
And let’s you easily fix these …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product comes with 3 plugins:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot source: Blog Defender)
The “Automated Backups” plugin lets you do secure site and file backups to your server, third-party servers and well-known cloud solutions using different backup methods, automate full or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to new domains or server locations), do mass text replacements in your WordPress database, perform auto database scans and repairs, and more.
Plugin #2 provides WordPress security …
(Image source: BlogDefender.com)
Pro Plugin #2 “WordPress Security” performs a range of file and site security functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 lets you scan your content and files to see whether anything has been changed, and repair the problem …
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender site)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been added to your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your work without offering any benefit in return).
Blog Defender – Video Tutorials
In addition to plugins, Blog Defender also includes step-by-step video training and downloadable guides that show you exactly what to do to protect your website from malicious attacks …
(Image source: BlogDefender site)
Learn more here:
Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the many benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your site:
Installation Is Easy
The Blog Defender plugins install just like every WordPress plugin. Just upload the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your administrator account and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender is a practical and useful training product that will walk you through the website security process and show you what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which free WordPress plugins to install to get the job done inexpensively.
Additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Protect your website from hackers, spammers, botnets, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you’re an information product creator (e.g. downloadable ebooks, videos, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Your Web Host And Deindexed By Search Engines – When a site is hacked, you should expect to go through a serious amount of inconvenience and aggravation. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through the issues these have caused. As a result, your, web presence could get suspended by your webhost, or even blacklisted in search engines. In addition, your personal contacts can end up being spammed, your customer list and financial details can be stolen, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Features
Blog Defender offers a number of great features to WordPress users.
Blog Defender provides fixes for all of the following security areas:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WordPress Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hiding WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam
- File Monitoring
- Link Tracking
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate WP Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tightening Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender follows a logical process for securing your web site, addressing hosting security, using scanning and detection tools to identify risky themes and plugins, and then implementing site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender WordPress security process. Screenshot source: BlogDefender.com)
Feedback From Users
Below are some of the testimonials users have published about the Blog Defender plugin:
”This is a seriously good product!” Simon Hodgkinson, www.hodgkinsonpublishing.com
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”Just one tip could have prevented my blogs getting hacked!” Richard Legg – www.richard-legg.com
Plugin Tips
According to the plugin’s website, since Blog Defender was first released, no websites or blogs protected with the product have been hacked.
Matt also states on his site …
“With the volume of attacks nowadays … we probably won’t hold forever, so we’ve been busy creating even tougher WordPress security.”
The war on hackers is is a perpetual game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and tools developers can access. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, won’t cost you a fortune and it’s as good if not better than many web security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Support
The product is well-supported, can be used by both Mac and PC users, is compatible with the latest WordPress release and is backed by a no-risk, thirty day, 100% money-back guarantee.
Software Price
Blog Defender is normally available for personal use only on unlimited sites. When we last checked, however, it was also being sold with Developer rights, allowing users to secure client sites as well.. Price = $47.00.
Note: Current pricing for the Blog Defender plugin depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. When we last checked, the software sells for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the software author when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing information:
Additional Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Use This Product
No matter what type of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, web security is something you cannot afford to ignore.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress installation, plugins and WordPress themes, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can expose your site to malicious by hackers and bots.
Blog Defender helps you learn what’s going on in your site and where the security holes are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if the security on your website is compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid all the major security risks without investing in expensive solutions.
For complete details, visit the plugin website: Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress Blogs
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