The scale of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is massive, and this is 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 before someone attempts to hack into your site.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com reported that over 162,000 WordPress sites 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 WP web sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyber attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every website or blog with a security vulnerability has some potential value to hackers. If you think that your site offers little to no value to hackers, think again. Large, medium and small websites, personal blogs, government web sites … even web sites owned by web security experts can and have been targeted.
If someone can find a software flaw in your security, your website can then be used to attack more highly-valued web sites.
The reality is that hackers are trying to break into your web site at this very moment. Whether they can achieve this or not, depends on how hard you will make it for them to continue trying until they either can discover how to get in, or are forced to give up and go look for a less secure target.
How Much Information About Your WordPress Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
Does your website run on WordPress? If so visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Website Security Scan Product image: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the test returns a number of results and information about your site …
(website security scan results. Product image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you are able to access all of this information about your website, then 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 on your server are all potentially useful information to hackers, as this informs them about potential security weaknesses, especially where the owners haven’t updated their software versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and make your site invisible to malicious attackers and bots.
Blog Defender
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 developer of the BlogDefender security suit developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress-driven blog he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This particular blog was fairly 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 unusual activity had occurred inside the site, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into his mother’s site.
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Matt’s experience demonstrates that every website has some value to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security holes in your website are …
And let’s you fix these quickly, easily and inexpensively …
Blog Defender – WP Plugins
Blog Defender comes with three WordPress plugins:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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The plugin lets you do secure backups to your server, external servers and cloud-based backup solutions using a number of backup methods, perform full or partial backups, exclude files or tables from backups, restore backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to new domains or server locations), do mass text replacements in databases, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Plugin #2 provides your site with security …
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Plugin #2 performs a range of site security functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Plugin #3 lets you scan your WP plugins, WordPress themes and core files to detect whether anything in your files has been tampered with, and repair any problems it finds …
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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 hard work without reciprocating the favor).
Tutorials Videos
In addition to the plugins, the Blog Defender suite of products also includes video training guides and printable guides that show you exactly how to protect your site from malicious users …
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Benefits
Here are 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:
Ready To Use In Very Little Time
The plugins included with Blog Defender install just like any regular plugin. Just upload them to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a DIY step-by-step training product that takes you through the website security process and shows you exactly what to do, including how to set things up, and even which WordPress plugins you can use for free to get the job done.
Some additional benefits include:
- Protect your site from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to exploit your site for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Protects Intellectual Property From Being Stolen – If you’re an information product creator (e.g. downloadable e-books, video training, etc.), your product can end up becoming freeware on free downloading sites.
- Avoid Getting Blacklisted By Search Engines – When a website gets hacked, you can expect to go through a serious amount of inconvenience and aggravation. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. During this time, your, web presence could get suspended by your host, or even deindexed by search engines. And if that is not painful enough, your contacts can be spammed, your subscriber list and financial details can be stolen, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender provides a number of great features to WP users.
The product covers the following issues:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- WordPress Plugin Security Audits
- 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
- Monitor Files
- Monitor Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tightening Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical process for securing your 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 website security process. Image source: Blog Defender)
User Feedback
Below are a couple of the testimonials that users have submitted for 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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“Sure wish I’d had this before I lost over a dozen blogs just recently!” Kathe Lucas – www.wackycentral.com
Plugin Tips
According to Matt Garrett, the plugin developer, since Blog Defender’s first release in 2012, no Blog Defender-protected websites were hacked.
The product developer states on his site, however …
“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 never-ending game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and tools that developers can currently get their hands on. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, is quite inexpensive and it’s as good if not better than most web security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Product 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, full refund guarantee.
Product Licensing 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 the Blog Defender product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The above reflects the current pricing at the time this article was written. This may not be the actual price charged by the product author when you visit the website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing details here:
Additional Information
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Download The Product
Regardless of the type 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 website security.
WordPress is a very secure platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress software, plugins and themes, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Adopting a security procedure like the one that Blog Defender provides, will help you learn what’s going on in your site and where the security holes are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if your websites are attacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the process of securing your WordPress site easier.
For complete details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress
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