The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and things are getting worse.
It’s safe to assume that if you haven’t been hacked yet, then it’s only a matter of time before someone attempts to hack into your site.
On March 11, 2014, technology sites like Cnet.com began reporting that over 162,000 legitimate WordPress web sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites and blogs are hacked 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 sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every website with a security vulnerability provides some type of opportunity to hackers. A vulnerable site not only offers hackers opportunities to improve their hacking skills and claim “bragging rights” from their peers, but it can also acts as a resource for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, spreading malware and engaging in information theft.
If someone can find a vulnerability and compromise the control of your website, that blog can then be used as a “bot” in a planned cyber-attack against more highly-valued websites.
The reality is that software-driven bots are probably trying to break into your site right now. Whether they can hack into your site successfully will depend on how hard you can make it for them to continue persisting until they discover how to break in, or give up and decide to look for a less protected target.
How Much Information About Your Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
If you visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
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You will see that the scan will return various results and information about your website …
(WP security check results. Product image source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you can see all of this information, then so can hackers.
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Being able to see which 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 in your site can be potentially useful information to hackers, as these can inform them about any holes or weaknesses, especially where the owners haven’t updated their files.
Fortunately, there is a simple way you can stop broadcasting all of this information about your web site and help to protect it against other malicious threats.
Blog Defender Security Suite 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 site he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This site was new and had practically nothing to offer, yet it still was attacked.
Matt only became aware of the event after being suspended by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred inside his 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 potential security weaknesses …
And then shows you how to easily fix these …
WP Plugins
The product suite comes with 3 plugins:
Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the product suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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This plugin lets you do secure site, file and data backups to your server, third-party servers and leading cloud-based storage solutions using a number of backup methods, automate complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to different domains or server locations), search and replace text strings in your WordPress database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
The second plugin provides WordPress security …
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This plugin provides a range of site and file protection functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 allows you to scan WordPress sites to detect whether any of your files have been altered, and repair the problem …
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Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious scripts have been added to your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your content without reciprocating the favor).
Step-By-Step Videos
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes videos plus printable guides that teach you exactly how to protect your website from hackers and bots …
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
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Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your web site:
Installation Is Easy And Fast
The plugins included in the Blog Defender product suite are quite easy to install. Simply upload them to your Plugin folder via your admin user area and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow
Blog Defender is a do-it-yourself step-by-step training product that guides you through the website security process and shows you what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which plugins you can install for free to get the job done.
Additional benefits and advantages include:
- Secure your site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Prevent Intellectual Property Theft – If you sell an info product (e.g. downloadable ebooks, video tutorials, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free downloading sites.
- Avoid A Tragic Situation – When a site gets hacked, you should expect to go through a great deal of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, web presence can be suspended by your webhost, or even blacklisted by search engines. Additionally, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal details and financial information, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender offers many features to WP users.
Blog Defender covers the following areas:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- WordPress 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
- Monitor Files
- Monitoring Links
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighten Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender provides a logical sequence of steps for securing your website, addressing potential hosting security issues, using scanning and detection tools to quickly identify risky themes and plugins, and then implementing website-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender WordPress security process. Product image source: BlogDefender website)
Testimonials From Customers
Here are just some testimonials and feedback plugin users 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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”Since working with blogs, I… like many others, have been concerned about how to handle the constant threat of blog attacks. After having a look at Blog Defender you can’t help but become most aware of the vulnerable areas all bloggers need to protect. Blog Defender is viable WordPress blog security prevention system that offers video instruction along with 3 software plugins that are free to download. The instruction shows the optimum settings on how to use the free plugins that will allow you top level force against blog hacker attacks.” Micheal Nicholas, Impact Info Marketing
Useful Tips
According to Matt Garrett, the plugin developer, since the release of Blog Defender, no websites using Blog Defender were hacked.
Matt 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 presently have access to. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier WordPress 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.
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: Price details for Blog Defender depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Currently, the product is selling for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual price charged by the software developer when you visit the website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after purchasing.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Use This Product
Regardless of the type of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, securing your website is something you simply cannot afford to ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting essential maintenance tasks like keeping your WordPress installation, WP plugins and themes updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
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 if your site is hacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid all the major WordPress security holes without costly solutions.
For more information, visit the plugin website here: Blog Defender
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