The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and this is only going to get 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+ WordPress-powered sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites are hacked every year! Will yours be one of them?
(Source: BlogDefender website)
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 websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that the information in your website is of no interest to hackers, but the reality is that to a hacker, all websites provide an opportunity to profit or benefit at your expense.
If someone can discover a way to gain complete control of your website or blog, the site can then be employed as part of a larger network of “bots” to target larger and more highly-valued websites.
The reality is that hackers are most likely trying to hack into your web site as you are reading this. Whether they will get in successfully or not, depends on how difficult you can make things for hackers to continue persisting until they find how to get access, or give up and go look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information About Your WordPress Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
Do you own a WordPress site? If so, visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – Website Security Check Screenshot image: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the test will display a number of results and information about your website …
(WordPress security check results. Image source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using this scanning tool that if you are able to freely access all of this information about your WordPress site, then so can hackers.
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender site)
Being able to see what version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories are all useful information to hackers, as these can inform them about any exploitable security vulnerabilities, especially where the owners haven’t updated their files.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way to stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and help to protect it against malicious attacks.
Blog Defender Security Suite
Product Description
The product is a package of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus WordPress security documentation in PDF and DOC formats.
Matt Garrett, the creator of BlogDefender began looking for a way to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress-driven site he set up for his mother got hacked into. This particular site was devoid of content and had literally no value to offer, yet it still was targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of this after being informed by his host and seeing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had taken place inside his site, as well as the addition of a number of phishing files by whoever had broken into the site.
(Product image: BlogDefender site)
This example demonstrates that all websites are valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you web site for security vulnerabilities …
And then shows you how to quickly and easily fix these …
Blog Defender – Plugins
Blog Defender includes 3 plugins:
Pro Plugin # 1 in the product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot source: BlogDefender.com)
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” lets you do automated backups to your server, third-party servers and well-known cloud solutions using different backup methods (e.g. FTP), schedule complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore backups, replace URLs (for site migrations), search and replace text strings in your database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
The second plugin provides your WP site with security …
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
This plugin provides a range of vital file and site security functions (see “Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 allows you to scan WordPress sites to detect whether your source code has been modified, and repair the problem …
(Screenshot source: BlogDefender site)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been added to your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your work without providing you any benefit in return).
Blog Defender – Tutorials Videos
In addition to the plugins, the Blog Defender product suite also includes 7 videos plus PDF/DOC guides that will teach you exactly how to protect your website from hackers and bots …
(Product image: BlogDefender.com)
For more details, visit the plugin site here:
Benefits Of Using Blog Defender
Here are just some of the benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your website:
Ready To Start Using In Very Little Time
The plugins install like every plugin. Just upload a zip folder containing the plugin files to your Plugins folder via your WordPress dashboard and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as an easy-to-follow 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 free WordPress plugins you should install to get the job done inexpensively.
Some additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Secure your site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data miners and malicious users attempting to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Protects Intellectual Property From Theft – If you are an info product creator (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video training, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid Getting Banned By Your Host – When a site has been hacked, expect to go through a serious amount of inconvenience and aggravation. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. As a result, your, site could get closed by your host, or even blocked in search engines. Additionally, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your business and financial information, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Features
Blog Defender provides a number of features to WordPress users.
Blog Defender helps you fix all of the following security areas:
- Host Security Advisory
- WP Plugin Security Audits
- Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WordPress Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hide WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam Blocking
- File Monitoring
- Monitoring Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate WP Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighten Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical process for securing your website, addressing potential hosting security issues, using tools to quickly identify risky themes and WP plugins, and then implementing site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender security process. Product image source: BlogDefender site)
Testimonials
Below are a couple of the testimonials customers have written about the Blog Defender security products:
”Great way to secure your blog!” 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 product’s website, no sites secured by the solution have been hacked since Blog Defender’s release.
Matt Garrett, the product developer also 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 an ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools that developers currently have access to. 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 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 no-risk, thirty day, complete money-back 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.
Note: Pricing details of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Currently, the product is being retailed for the prices shown above. This may or may not be the actual price set by the plugin developer when you visit the product site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for the latest pricing:
Additional Plugin Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
We Recommend
No matter what kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, you cannot afford to ignore the importance of web security.
WordPress is a very secure platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like ensuring that your WP installation, WP plugins and WordPress themes are kept up-to-date, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can expose your site to malicious by hackers and bots.
Blog Defender helps you learn what your security responsibilities are as the site owner, 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 how to avoid all the major WordPress security holes without paying a lot of money.
For complete details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Product Suite For WordPress Websites & Blogs
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