The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is increasing on a daily basis, and it’s getting 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 reported that over 160,000+ WordPress-powered 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 well-known flaw to attack unsuspecting WordPress websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every site with a vulnerability can be seen as a potential opportunity to hackers. A vulnerable site not only presents hackers opportunities to improve their skills and claim “bragging rights” among their peers, but it can also serve as a resource for denial of service attacks, distributing malware and participating in information theft.
If a hacker can find a weakness in your security, your web site can then be employed as a “bot” in a planned cyber-attack against more highly-valued sites.
The harsh reality is that hackers are probably trying to hack into your site right now. Whether they can break into your site successfully or not, depends on how difficult or easy you can make it for hackers to continue persisting until they find a way to get access, or are forced to give up and go look for a less secure target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your WordPress Site?
Does your website run on WordPress? If so visit Hackertarget.com and run your website through their WordPress security check …
(WordPress Security Check Product image source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the scan returns a number of results and information about your site setup …
(website security check results. Product image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using this scanning tool that if you can access all of this information about your blog, so can hackers.
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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 can all be useful information to hackers, as this informs them about any vulnerabilities, especially where the owners haven’t updated their files.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and protect against other malicious threats.
Blog Defender Security Plugin For WordPress
Product Description
Blog Defender is a package of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the creator of the BlogDefender security suit developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress blog he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This site had practically nothing to offer, yet it still was attacked.
Matt only became aware of the event after being contacted by his host and seeing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred within his server, 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 is valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security holes in your WordPress installation are …
And then shows you how to fix these quickly …
WordPress Plugins
Blog Defender comes with 3 plugins for WordPress:
Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the product suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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The “Automated Backups” plugin lets you do secure backups to your server, external servers and cloud backup solutions using a number of backup methods (e.g. Email), automate complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (for site migrations), do bulk text replacements in databases, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin #2 “WP Security” provides WordPress security …
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This plugin provides a range of site security functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
Pro Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” lets you scan your plugins, themes, WP core files and content to detect if code in your files has been modified, and fix the problem …
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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 people benefit from your hard work without reciprocating the favor).
Blog Defender – Tutorials Videos
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes step-by-step training videos plus PDF/DOC guides that teach you exactly what to do to protect your site from hackers and bots …
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Plugin Benefits
Below are just some of the many benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your web site:
Fast And Simple To Install And Implement
The plugins install just like any other plugin. Simply upload the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your WP admin account and activate.
Very Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a DIY training product that will walk you through the website security process and show you what to do, including how to set things up, and even which WordPress plugins you can use for free to get the job done inexpensively.
Additional benefits include the following:
- Protect your site from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data miners and malicious users attempting to exploit your site for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Protect Your Info Products – If you are a digital product author (e.g. downloadable ebooks, videos, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up becoming freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid A Tragic Situation – When a site gets hacked, you can expect to go through a whole lot of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through the issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, website can be closed by your host, or even blocked by search engines. In addition, your personal contacts can be spammed, your customer list and financial details can be stolen, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and more.
Features
Blog Defender provides many features to WP users.
Blog Defender covers the following issues:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- WP Plugin Security Audits
- WP Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WP Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hiding WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam
- File Monitoring
- Link Tracking
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical sequence of steps to help protect your your WordPress installation, addressing hosting security, 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 WordPress security process. Product image source: BlogDefender.com)
Testimonials From Users
Here are a couple of the testimonials and comments that plugin users have submitted regarding Blog Defender:
“You are literally walked through the process!” Nikki Stephens, www.nikkistephens.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’s site, no Blog Defender-secured websites were hacked since Blog Defender’s release.
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 an ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and technologies that developers can access. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier security solution that doesn’t need constant attention, won’t cost you a fortune and it’s as good if not better than most premium security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Plugin 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, complete money-back guarantee.
Plugin Pricing
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.. Price = $47.00.
Please Note: The price of this product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. When we last checked, the software is being retailed for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual price set by the plugin developer when you visit the plugin site and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Information
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Use These Plugins
No matter what type 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 website security.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress installation, plugins and WordPress themes, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can expose your website to attacks by hackers and bots.
Adopting a security procedure like the one Blog Defender provides, will help you understand 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 compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid all the major WordPress security holes without investing in expensive solutions.
For more details, visit the plugin website: Blog Defender Security Suite For WordPress
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