The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is increasing on a daily basis, and things are only going to get worse.
It’s safe to assume that if you haven’t been hacked yet, then it’s inevitable that at some point in time someone will attempt to hack into your site.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com began reporting that over 160,000+ WordPress websites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites and blogs are attacked every year! Will yours be one of them?
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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 websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that the information in your website has no significant value to hackers, but the reality is that every website has some value to a malicious user.
If a malicious user can hack and take over your blog, the website or blog can then be employed as part of a larger network of “bots” to target more valued sites.
The reality is that malicious bots are very likely looking for vulnerabilities and trying to break into your website at this very moment. Whether they can successfully get in or not, will depend on how difficult or easy you can make things for them to keep trying until they discover how to get in, or give up and decide to look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your Site?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your website through their WordPress security check …
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You will see that the check returns various results and details about your website setup …
(Hackertarget – WP security scan results. Screenshot: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you can access all of this information, then so can hackers.
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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 can all be potentially useful information to hackers, as these can inform them about any potential holes or weaknesses, especially where site owners haven’t updated their sites.
Fortunately, there is a way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and make your site invisible to malicious users and bots.
Blog Defender Security Suite For WordPress
Product Description
The product is a package of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the creator of the BlogDefender security suit began looking for a way to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother had been hacked into and suspended by its webhost. This particular blog was not being used and so had practically no value to offer, yet it still was targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of what had happened after being contacted by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had taken place within the site, as well as the addition of a number of malicious files by whoever had broken into his site.
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This simple example should be enough to convince you that all websites have value to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you website for potential security holes …
And then shows you how to fix these quickly …
Blog Defender – WP Plugins
Blog Defender comes with 3 plugins:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender suite provides automated backups …
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This plugin lets you do automated site and file backups to your server, external servers and popular cloud storage solutions using a number of backup methods (including FTP and email backups), automate complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating websites to different domains or server locations), do mass text string replacements in databases, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin #2 “WordPress Security” provides your site with security …
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The plugin performs a range of website security functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
Plugin #3 lets you scan your WordPress plugins, themes and WordPress core files to detect whether anything unusual has been found, and repair problems …
(Screenshot source: BlogDefender.com)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been inserted into your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your work without providing anything of benefit in return).
Video Training
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes a number of video tutorials and downloadable documentation that will show you exactly how to protect your site from malicious users …
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Benefits Of Using Blog Defender
Below are just some of the many benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your web site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Use
The plugins are very easy to install. Simply upload them to your Plugin folder via your WordPress administrator login and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender is a DIY step-by-step 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 plugins you should install to get things done without incurring additional costs.
Additional benefits of using this plugin include the following:
- Protect your site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to exploit your site for their own personal and financial gain.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you’re an information product creator (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video tutorials, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up becoming freeware on download sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Blacklisted By Your Host – When a website has been hacked, you can expect to go through a whole lot of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through the issues these have caused. During this time, your, site can get closed by your webhost, or even deindexed by search engines. Additionally, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your business details and financial information, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender offers many features to web site owners.
Blog Defender provides fixes for the following areas:
- Host Security Advisory
- WordPress Plugin Security Audits
- WP Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- MySQL Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hide WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam Blocking
- File Monitoring
- Link Monitoring
- Block Known Offenders
- Automating Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tightening Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical process for securing your website, addressing hosting security, using tools to identify risky themes and WP plugins, and then helping you implement site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender security process. Screenshot source: BlogDefender website)
User Testimonials
Here are just a few of the testimonials and comments that customers have submitted regarding Blog Defender:
”I’ve had to go through the inconvenience of a hacked blog before and let me tell you it’s not nice. With online security becoming an increasing problem, especially with WordPress, this is a great way to secure your blog. I’ll be following Matt’s training and securing all my blogs…Great job.” JohnThornhill – www.johnthornhill.com
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”Since working with blogs, I… like many others, have been concerned about how to handle the constant threat of blog attacks. After having a look at Blog Defender you can’t help but become most aware of the vulnerable areas all bloggers need to protect. Blog Defender is viable WordPress blog security prevention system that offers video instruction along with 3 software plugins that are free to download. The instruction shows the optimum settings on how to use the free plugins that will allow you top level force against blog hacker attacks.” Micheal Nicholas, Impact Info Marketing
Plugin Tips
According to Matt Garrett’s site, since Blog Defender was first released back in 2012, no sites protected with the solution have been hacked.
The product developer 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 an ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the information and technologies that developers can currently harness. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, is quite inexpensive and it’s as good if not better than many premium 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 risk-free, 30 day, 100% refund guarantee.
Software 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.. Price = $47.00.
Please Note: The cost of purchasing Blog Defender can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Currently, the software sells for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the plugin developer when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing:
Additional Plugin Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Download This Product
Regardless of the kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, website security is something you cannot ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting essential maintenance tasks like making sure that your WP installation, plugins and WordPress themes are kept updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Blog Defender helps you understand what your responsibilities as a website owner are, what hosting companies can and can’t do to help prevent your sites being attacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid all the major security risks without paying a lot of money.
For more details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Solution
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