The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is increasing on a daily basis, and it’s getting worse.
It’s probably 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 reported that over 160,000+ legitimate WordPress-powered web 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.
You may think that your website or blog has no value to hackers, but the reality is that every website is valuable to a malicious user.
If a malicious user can find a way to gain remote access of your site, your blog can then be used to target more valued web sites.
The truth is that software-driven bots are trying to break into your site at this very moment. Whether they will do this successfully or not, depends on how hard or easy you have made things for them to continue trying until they work out a way to break in, or give up and 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 …
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You will see that the check will yield a number of results and details about your site …
(WordPress 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, 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 on your site, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories can be potentially valuable information to hackers, as these can inform them about any security vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and protect against other malicious threats.
Blog Defender
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 the BlogDefender security suit began to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress blog he set up for his mother got hacked into. This blog was almost brand new and so had literally nothing to offer, yet it was still targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of the event after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of unusual activity had taken place within the server, as well as the addition of a number of phishing files by whoever had broken into his site.
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Matt’s experience shows that that all websites have value to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you WordPress site for security vulnerabilities …
And let’s you easily fix these …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product includes 3 plugins:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the Blog Defender suite provides automated backups …
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The “Automated Backups” plugin lets you do automated site and file backups to your server, external servers and popular cloud-based solutions using different backup methods (including FTP and email backups), perform complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from your backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating websites to different domains or server locations), do bulk text string replacements in databases, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
The second plugin provides your site with security …
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The “WordPress Security” plugin provides a range of vital website protection functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” lets you scan your website to detect if your source code has been changed, and repair any problems it detects …
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Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious content have been inserted into your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your hard work without offering anything of value in return).
Videos
In addition to plugins, the Blog Defender security product suite also includes a number of videos and downloadable documentation that will teach you exactly how to protect your site from hackers and bots …
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Plugin Benefits
Here we have listed 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:
Be Up And Running In No Time
The plugins are very easy to install. Simply upload them to your Plugins folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender is a step-by-step training product that guides you through the website security process and shows you exactly what to do, including how to set things up, and even which free WordPress plugins you should use to get things done inexpensively.
Some additional plugin benefits include:
- Protect your site from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data mining tools and malicious users attempting to exploit your site for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you sell an information product (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video tutorials, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free sharing sites.
- Avoid A Tragic Situation – When a website is hacked, you should expect to go through a serious amount of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. During this time, your, web presence could get suspended by your webhost, or even blocked in search engines. In addition, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal or financial information, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Plugin Features
Blog Defender was created to locks down your site and keeps your business safe and secure 24/7.
The product helps you fix the following areas:
- Host Security Advisory
- WP 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
- Monitoring Files
- Tracking Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating Core Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tightening Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical process to help secure your site, addressing potential hosting security issues, using scanning and detection tools to identify risky themes and plugins, and then helping you implement site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender website security process. Product image: BlogDefender site)
User Feedback
Here are a couple of the testimonials and feedback that customers have provided for the Blog Defender product:
”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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”In the past month alone, I’ve had 3 niche blogs hacked, costing me hundreds of dollars in lost sales – all of which could have been avoided if I followed the steps in this training. I can tell you, there’s nothing worse than spending months building up a blog, adding posts every few days, and then finding it all gone in an instant. The great thing about these ‘over the shoulder’ videos is that you get to see exactly how to do everything, so it doesn’t matter if you’re technically challenged. Just copy what you see on the screen, and then relax knowing your blogs are safe. (Just one of the tips in the first video alone could probably have prevented my blogs getting hacked) I even noticed one or two tips in there that help with SEO too … so following these videos could even bring your blogs more traffic!” Richard Legg – www.richard-legg.com
Plugin Tips
According to the plugin developer, since Blog Defender was first released, no sites using Blog Defender were hacked.
Matt Garrett 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 ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and tools developers can currently access. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, is quite inexpensive and it’s as good if not better than most premium 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 no-risk, 30 day, full refund guarantee.
Product Cost
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 of purchasing this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Presently, the product retails for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing charged by the product seller when you visit the site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing information:
Additional Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Download This Product
No matter what type of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, you simply cannot ignore the importance of web security.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like making sure that your WP software, plugins and WordPress themes are kept updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can expose your website to attacks by hackers and bots.
Blog Defender helps you understand what’s going on in your site and where the vulnerabilities are, what hosting companies can and can’t do to help prevent your sites being compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the task of securing your WordPress website easier.
For more details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Product Suite
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