The scale of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is increasing on a daily basis, and it’s only going to get worse.
You can safely 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 reported that over 160,000+ WordPress-powered sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites 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 WP websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every website or blog with a security vulnerability provides an opportunity to hackers. A compromised blog offers hackers with a platform to launch DDoS attacks, spread malware and use your site to steal information from innocent people.
If hackers can exploit a vulnerability, your site can then be employed as a “bot” to attack other valued websites.
The truth is that hackers are probably trying to hack into your website or blog as you are reading this at this very moment. Whether they can do this successfully will depend on how challenging you have made it for hackers to keep persisting until they can discover how to get in, or 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 website through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – Website Security Scan Product image source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the check will yield a number of results and details about your WordPress installation …
(Hackertarget – website security check results. Product image source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you are able to freely access all of this information about your blog, hackers can too.
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Being able 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 are all potentially valuable information to hackers, as this informs them about exploitable security vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive solution to stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and make your site invisible to hackers and botnets.
Blog Defender Security Product Suite For WordPress
Product Description
Blog Defender is a package 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 to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This blog was quite new and had literally nothing to offer, yet it still was attacked.
Matt only became aware of the event after being informed by his host and noticing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred inside his site, as well as the addition of several phishing files designed to drive visitors to the site and hijack their Paypal account details.
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This example should be enough to convince you that all websites have some value to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security holes in your WordPress installation are …
And let’s you fix these quickly, easily and inexpensively …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product suite includes three plugins:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” lets you do secure site and file backups to your server, third-party servers and well-known cloud backup solutions using different backup methods, schedule complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (for site migrations), do bulk text string replacements in databases, perform auto database scans and repairs, and more.
The second plugin provides your website with security …
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The plugin performs a range of vital site and file security functions (see “Plugin Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 lets you scan WordPress sites to see whether your source code has been modified, and repair the problem …
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Pro Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” also scans content to see if any malicious content have been added to your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your hard work without providing you any reciprocal benefit or value in return).
Blog Defender – Training Videos
In addition to plugins, Blog Defender also includes several training in video format plus training documentation that teach you exactly how to protect your website from malicious attacks …
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Learn more about this plugin here:
Plugin Benefits
Here are just some of the benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Implement
The plugins included in the Blog Defender product suite are quite easy to install. Simply upload a zip folder containing the plugins to your Plugin folder via your admin login and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a training product that takes you through the website security process and shows you exactly what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which free plugins you should install to get things done.
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Protect your website from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data miners and malicious users attempting to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Prevent Your Info Products From Theft – If you sell an info product (e.g. downloadable ebooks, videos, etc.), your product can end up becoming freeware on download sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Your Web Host And Deindexed By Search Engines – When a website is hacked, expect to go through a whole lot of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. As a result, your, website or blog could be closed by your webhost, or even deindexed in search engines. And if that is not painful enough, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal details and financial information, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Plugin Features
Blog Defender was designed to keep your sites and your business safe and secure 24/7.
The product covers the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Host Security Advisory
- WP Plugin Security Audits
- WordPress Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WP Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hide WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam
- Monitoring Files
- Track Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate Core Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender follows a logical sequence of steps for securing your website, addressing potential hosting security issues, using tools to identify risky themes and plugins, and then implementing site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender website security process. Product image: BlogDefender.com)
User Feedback
Here are some of the testimonials and feedback that plugin users have written about the Blog Defender product suite:
”Great way to secure your blog!” JohnThornhill – www.johnthornhill.com
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”A top level force against hacker attacks!” Micheal Nicholas, Impact Info Marketing
Useful Tips
According to the product’s site, since Blog Defender was first released back in 2012, no Blog Defender-protected websites or blogs have been hacked.
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 is a never-ending game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools developers presently can access. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, won’t cost a fortune and it’s as good if not better than most premium security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Blog Defender 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, full money-back guarantee.
Plugin 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: Pricing details of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Currently, the software is selling for the amounts shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the product developer when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing:
Additional Info
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Get The Product
Regardless of the kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, you simply cannot afford to ignore the importance of web security.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting essential maintenance tasks like making sure that your WordPress installation, WP plugins and themes are kept updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Blog Defender helps you learn what your responsibilities are as the site owner, what hosting companies can and can’t do if your websites are compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the task of securing your installation easier.
For complete details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender WordPress Security Solution
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