The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and the situation is getting worse.
It’s probably safe to assume that if your website or blog hasn’t been hacked yet, then it’s only a matter of time before someone attempts to hack into your site.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com began reporting that over 162,000 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 reported by security firm Sucuri, hackers had leveraged a flaw to attack unsuspecting WordPress sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that the information in your site is of little value to hackers, but the reality is that all websites have some value to a malicious user.
If someone can exploit a security flaw, your site can then be employed to target larger and more valued web sites.
The reality is that brute-force software bots are very likely searching for security exploits and trying to hack into your web site as you are reading this. Whether they can get into your site successfully or not, depends on how hard you will make it for them to keep persisting until they discover how to get access, or are forced to give up and decide to look for a less secure target.
How Much Information About Your WordPress Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
Do you own a WordPress site? If so, visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security scan …
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You will see that the scan will return various results and details about your website …
(website security check results. Screenshot: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the tool shown above that if you are able to access all of this information about your WordPress site, so can hackers.
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The ability to see which version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories in your site can be potentially valuable information to hackers, as this can inform them about potentially exploitable security vulnerabilities, especially where site owners haven’t updated their files.
Fortunately, there is a simple way to stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and make your site invisible to malicious users and bots.
Blog Defender WordPress Security Product Suite
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 to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother got hacked into. This site was almost brand new and so had literally nothing of value to offer, yet it was still targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of this after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had taken place within the server, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into the site.
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Matt’s experience should be enough to illustrate the fact that every website is valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security holes in your WordPress site are …
And let’s you fix these quickly …
WordPress Plugins
The Blog Defender security product includes 3 plugins for WordPress:
Pro Plugin # 1 in the product suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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The plugin lets you do secure site, file and data backups to your server, third-party servers and cloud-based storage solutions using a number of backup methods (e.g. Email), schedule full or partial backups, exclude files or tables from backups, restore backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating websites to new domains or server locations), search and replace text strings in your database, perform auto database scans and repairs, and more.
The second plugin provides WordPress security …
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Pro Plugin #2 “WordPress Security” provides a range of file and site protection functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” lets you scan WordPress sites to see whether any of your files have been tampered with, and repair any problems it uncovers …
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Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious content have been inserted into your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your content without providing anything in return).
Blog Defender – Videos
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes 7 step-by-step video training modules plus training documentation that will teach you exactly what to do to protect your site from hackers …
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Learn more about this plugin here:
Benefits
Here we have listed just some of the benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your website:
Ready To Go To Work In No Time
The plugins are very easy to install. Simply upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow
Blog Defender can be used as a DIY training product that will walk you through the website security process and show you exactly what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which plugins you can install for free to get things done.
Some additional benefits include:
- Secure your WordPress site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data miners and malicious users attempting to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you sell an information product (e.g. downloadable e-books, video tutorials, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on peer-to-peer sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Search Engines – When a site has been hacked, you can expect to go through a serious amount of frustration and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. As a result, your, websites can be suspended by your webhost, or even deindexed by search engines. And if this isn’t enough to have to deal with, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal and financial information, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender was created to keeps your site and your business safe and secure 24/7.
The product helps you fix the following issues:
- Host Security Advisory
- WP 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
- Link Tracking
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical process to help protect your web site, addressing hosting security, using scanning and detection tools to identify risky WordPress themes and plugins, and then helping you implement site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender security process. Screenshot: BlogDefender.com)
User Feedback
Here are a few of the testimonials and feedback that customers have published about 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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”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
Plugin Tips
According to Matt Garrett’s site, no Blog Defender-protected websites or blogs were hacked since Blog Defender was first released.
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.”
Cybersecurity is is a perpetual game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools developers currently can 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, thirty day, complete money-back guarantee.
Product 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.. Cost = $47.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The pricing shown above was correct at the time this review was published. This may or may not be the actual price set by the product author when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Get This Product
Regardless of the type of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, securing your web sites is something you cannot ignore.
WordPress is a very secure platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like keeping your WP software, WP plugins and themes up-to-date, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Adopting security policies like the one that Blog Defender provides, will help you learn what’s going on in your site and where the vulnerabilities are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if your websites are hacked, 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 here: Blog Defender Security Solution
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