The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is rising, and it’s only going to get worse.
It’s probably safe to assume that if your website or blog hasn’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 162,000 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 flaw to attack unsuspecting WP web sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that your website or blog has nothing to offer to hackers, but the reality is that every website has some value to a malicious user.
If hackers can discover a web security flaw, your website can then be used as a “bot” in a planned cyber attack against more valuable sites.
The truth is that malicious bots are most likely trying to hack into your website or blog as you are reading this page at this very moment. Whether they can achieve this will depend on how challenging you can make it for them to continue trying until they can discover a way to get access, or are forced to give up and go look for an easier 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 …
(Hackertarget – WP Security Scan Product image: Hackertarget.com)
You will see that the check will display a number of results and information about your website …
(website security scan results. Product image source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using this tool that if you are able to freely access all of this information, then so can hackers.
(Screenshot: BlogDefender site)
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 are all useful information to hackers, as these can inform them about potentially exploitable vulnerabilities, especially where the owners haven’t updated their software versions.
Fortunately, there is a way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and make your site invisible to malicious users and botnets.
Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress Websites
Product Description
The product is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the creator of BlogDefender developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother had been hacked into and suspended. This particular site was quite new and had practically 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 his server, as well as the addition of several malicious files designed to drive visitors to the site and steal financial details.
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
Matt’s experience should be enough to illustrate the fact that all websites have value to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you web site for potential security weaknesses …
And then shows you how to quickly and easily fix these …
WP Plugins
The Blog Defender security suite includes three WordPress plugins:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot: Blog Defender)
This plugin lets you do automated site and file backups to your server, external servers and well-known cloud-based storage solutions using different backup methods, schedule full or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to different domains or server locations), do mass text replacements in your WordPress database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
The second plugin provides WordPress security …
(Product image: BlogDefender site)
The plugin performs a range of vital file and site security functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 scans your site to see if anything in your files has been modified, and repair any problems it finds …
(Image source: BlogDefender.com)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been inserted into your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your work without reciprocating the favor).
Videos
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes 7 step-by-step video tutorial modules plus written documentation that will show you exactly how to protect your site from malicious attacks …
(Source: Blog Defender)
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Plugin Benefits
Here are just some of the many benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your website:
Ready To Use In Very Little Time
The Blog Defender plugins are very easy to install. Just upload the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your administrator login and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a step-by-step 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 use for free to get things done.
Additional benefits include:
- Secure your site from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Protects Intellectual Property From Theft – If you are an information product creator (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video training, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Suspended By Your Web Host And Deindexed By Search Engines – When a site is hacked, you can expect to go through a serious amount of inconvenience and aggravation. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through any issues these have caused. Your, blog could be closed by your host, or even blocked by search engines. And if that is not painful enough, your contacts could end up being spammed, your customer list and financial details could be stolen, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender was created to keep your sites and your business safe and secure 24/7.
Blog Defender covers the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- WP 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
- File Monitoring
- Link Monitoring
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical sequence of steps to help secure your your WordPress installation, addressing potential hosting security issues, using scanning and detection tools to identify risky WP 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)
Feedback From Users
Below are a couple of the testimonials and comments that plugin customers have provided 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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”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
Useful Tips
According to the product’s website, no sites secured with the solution have been hacked since Blog Defender was originally released.
Matt Garrett, 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.”
Cybersecurity is is a constant game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools 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, 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.
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, thirty day, full money-back guarantee.
Software 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.
Note: The cost to purchase the Blog Defender product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the product is selling for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the product developer when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing:
Additional Plugin Information
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, website security is something you simply cannot ignore.
WordPress is a secure web 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 policy such as the one Blog Defender provides, will help you understand what’s going on in your site and where the vulnerabilities are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if the security on your website is compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid all the major WordPress security holes without paying for costly solutions.
For full details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Plugin
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