The scale of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is increasing on a daily basis, and this is getting worse.
It’s 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 began reporting that 160,000+ WordPress websites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites are attacked every year! Could yours be next?
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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 web sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that your website has no value to hackers, but the reality is that all websites are valuable to a malicious user.
If a malicious user can discover a security flaw that allows them to gain control of your blog, your blog can then be used as a “bot” in a planned cyber-attack against larger and more valuable web sites.
The harsh reality is that brute-force software bots are trying to break into your blog at this very moment. Whether they will get in will depend on how challenging you have made things for hackers and bots to continue trying until they discover how 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?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – Website Security Scan Product image source: Hackertarget.com)
You will see that the check will return various results and information about your site setup …
(Hackertarget – WordPress security scan results. Product image source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the tool shown above that if you can see all of this information, then so can hackers.
(Screenshot: BlogDefender website)
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 this can inform them about potential vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple solution to stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and help to protect it against other malicious threats.
Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress
Product Description
The product 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-driven blog he set up for his mother got hacked into and suspended by its hosting company. This particular blog was fairly new and so had literally no value to offer, yet it was still targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of what had happened after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of unusual activity had occurred inside his server, as well as the addition of a number of phishing files by whoever had broken into the site.
(Source: BlogDefender website)
Matt’s experience should be enough to illustrate the fact that all websites are valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security weaknesses in your website are …
And then shows you how to fix these quickly …
Plugins
The product suite comes with 3 plugins for WordPress:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the Blog Defender product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot: Blog Defender)
The “Automated Backups” plugin lets you do secure site and file backups to your server, third-party servers and well-known cloud-based solutions using a number of backup methods (including FTP and email backups), perform complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from backups, restore backups, replace URLs (for site migrations), search and replace text in your WordPress database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin # 2 provides your web site with security …
(Product image source: BlogDefender website)
This plugin performs a range of vital site security functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 allows you to scan WordPress sites to detect if anything has been found, and repair any problems found …
(Screenshot: BlogDefender site)
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” also scans content to see if any malicious URLs 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).
Videos
In addition to plugins, Blog Defender also includes step-by-step training in video format plus downloadable documentation that will show you exactly what to do to protect your site from hackers and bots …
(Source: BlogDefender website)
Learn more here:
Benefits Of Using Blog Defender
Below we have listed just a few of the benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your site:
Quick And Easy To Install And Use
The plugins are quite easy to install. Simply upload 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 a step-by-step training product that walks you through the website security process and shows you what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which free plugins to install to get things done without incurring unnecessary expenses.
Additional benefits of the plugin include:
- Secure your website from hackers, spammers, botnets, data miners and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Protect Your Info Products From Being Shared Around The Net – If you are an info product author (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video training, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free sharing sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Search Engines – When a site is hacked, you can expect to go through a whole lot of frustration and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, account could get suspended by your webhost, or even deindexed in search engines. And if this is not enough to have to deal with, your contacts can be spammed, your customer list and financial details could be stolen, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and more.
Plugin Features
Blog Defender was created to locks down your site and keeps your business safe and secure 24/7.
Blog Defender addresses the following security areas:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- 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
- File Monitoring
- Link Monitoring
- Blocking Known Offenders
- Automate WP Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical sequence of steps to help protect your website, 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 website security process. Product image source: BlogDefender.com)
User Testimonials
Below are a couple of the testimonials plugin customers have written about 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 Matt Garrett’s site, no Blog Defender-protected sites have been hacked since Blog Defender’s release.
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.”
The war on hackers is an escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and technologies that developers presently can access. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, won’t cost you a fortune and it’s as good if not better than most web 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 no-risk, thirty day, complete refund guarantee.
Product 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.. Cost = $47.00.
Please Note: Price details for the Blog Defender plugin can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. The above reflects the pricing when this article was published. This may not be the actual price charged by the product developer when you visit the product website and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for the current pricing here:
Additional Plugin Information
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Download This Product
Regardless of the kind 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 web security.
WordPress is a secure web platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress software, WordPress plugins and themes, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can expose your website to attacks by hackers and bots.
Blog Defender helps you understand what your security responsibilities as a website owner are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if your website is hacked or compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid major WordPress security holes without paying a lot of money.
For more details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender Security Suite For WordPress
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