The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and things are only going to get worse.
You can safely assume that if you haven’t been hacked yet, then it’s only a matter of time.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com reported that 160,000+ legitimate WordPress-powered websites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites are hacked every year! Will yours be one of them?
(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 described by security firm Sucuri, hackers had leveraged a well-known flaw to attack unsuspecting WordPress sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that your website or blog has no significant value to hackers, but the reality is that all websites are valuable to a malicious user.
If a hacker can find a security weakness in your system and compromise the control of your site, that blog can then be used as a “bot” in a planned cyber-attack against more valued websites.
The truth is that brute-force software bots are probably trying to break into your web site at this very moment. Whether they can do this successfully depends on how hard you will make it for hackers and botnets to keep persisting until they either work out a way to get access, or decide to look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information About Your Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
Do you own a WordPress site? If so, visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your website through their WordPress security check …
(WordPress Security Check Screenshot source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the check will yield various results and details about your website setup …
(Hackertarget – website security scan results. Source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the tool shown above that if you can freely access all of this information about your website, then hackers can too.
(Screenshot: Blog Defender)
The ability to see what version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories on your server can be potentially valuable information to hackers, as this informs them about any potential security vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and help to protect it against malicious attacks.
Blog Defender Security Suite For WordPress
Product Description
Blog Defender is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, WordPress plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the developer of BlogDefender began developing BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This particular site was devoid of content and so had practically nothing to offer, yet it was still targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of what had happened after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred inside his site, as well as the addition of a number of malicious files by whoever had broken into his mother’s site.
(Source: BlogDefender website)
This example shows that that every website is valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you website for security vulnerabilities …
And let’s you quickly and easily fix these …
Blog Defender – WP Plugins
The Blog Defender security suite comes with 3 plugins for WordPress:
The first plugin in the product suite provides automated backups …
(Image source: BlogDefender website)
Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” lets you do secure backups to your server, external servers and leading cloud-based solutions using different backup methods (e.g. Email), schedule full or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to different domains or server locations), search and replace text in your WordPress database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Plugin #2 provides WordPress security …
(Product image source: BlogDefender.com)
The “WordPress Security” plugin provides a range of site security functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Plugin #3 scans your content and files to detect whether code in your files has been altered, and fix the problem …
(Product image source: BlogDefender site)
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been added to your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your hard work without providing anything in return).
Blog Defender – Videos
In addition to plugins, Blog Defender also includes 7 videos plus PDF/DOC guides that will show you exactly what you need to do to protect your site from malicious users …
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
More info:
Plugin Benefits
Here we have listed just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your web site:
Be Up And Running In No Time
The plugins included with Blog Defender install like any plugin. Just upload the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender is an easy-to-follow step-by-step training product that guides you through the website security process and shows you what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which plugins you can install for free to get the job done without incurring additional costs.
Some additional benefits of using the plugin include:
- Protect your WordPress site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data miners and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you’re an info product author (e.g. downloadable e-books, videos, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free downloading sites.
- Avoid Getting Banned By Your Host – When a site gets hacked, expect to go through a great deal of frustration and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. Your, blog could get closed by your webhost, or even deindexed by search engines. And if this isn’t painful enough, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal details or financial information, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and more.
Features
Blog Defender provides many features to site owners.
Blog Defender helps you fix the following areas:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- WordPress Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- MySQL Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hiding WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam Blocking
- File Monitoring
- Monitoring Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tightening Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical sequence of steps for securing your your WordPress installation, addressing hosting security, using tools to identify risky WP themes and WordPress plugins, and then helping you implement website-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender WordPress security process. Image source: BlogDefender site)
Testimonials From Users
Here are a few of the testimonials that users have written about Blog Defender:
”Great way to secure your blog!” JohnThornhill – www.johnthornhill.com
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”My business is built around the WordPress platform and I’m embarrassed to admin I’ve been slack in the security department. However, Matt’s training soon put that right! I followed each detailed video to the letter and discovered some incredible security tricks and plugins I’d never heard of before. Better still, all the plugins were free to download too! The end result? My WordPress membership site is now locked down tighter than Parkhurst at midnight and if anybody tries hacking it, I’ll be the first to know! thanks again Matt, I’m off to secure the rest of the blogs in my portfolio!” David Walker – www.inboxrockstar.com
Useful Tips
According to Matt Garrett’s site, no websites or blogs using Blog Defender have been hacked since Blog Defender’s original release.
Matt Garrett, the product developer 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.”
Cybersecurity is an escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and technologies that developers presently have access to. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, doesn’t cost a fortune and it’s as good if not better than most 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% refund guarantee.
Product Price
Blog Defender is normally available with a personal license only for use on unlimited sites. When we last checked, however, it was also being sold with Developer rights, allowing users to secure client sites as well.. Cost = $47.00.
Note: The cost of purchasing the Blog Defender product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the plugin retails for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual price set by the product seller when you visit the plugin site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Information
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Install The Plugins
No matter what kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, website security is something you simply cannot afford to ignore.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like making sure that your WP installation, plugins and themes are kept updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Adopting a security procedure such as the one Blog Defender provides, will help you understand what your security responsibilities as a website owner are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if the security on your site is compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the process of securing your site easier.
For complete details, visit the plugin website: Blog Defender Security Suite For WordPress
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