The scale of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is increasing on a daily basis, and the situation is only going to get worse.
You can safely 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 162,000 legitimate WordPress-powered sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites 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 reported by security firm Sucuri, hackers had leveraged a flaw to attack unsuspecting WordPress sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every site with a security vulnerability can present an opportunity to hackers. An unsecured web site not only provides newbie hackers opportunities to improve their hacking skills and win “respect” amongst their peers, but it can also acts as a valuable platform for launching DDoS attacks, distributing malware and defrauding users through information theft.
If a malicious user can discover a way to gain remote access and control of your site, the site can then be employed to attack more valued web sites.
The truth is that brute-force software bots are most likely trying to hack into your website or blog as you are reading these very words. Whether they will hack into your site successfully or not, depends on how difficult you have made things for them to keep trying until they work out a way to get in, or give up and decide to look for a less protected target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your Site?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – WordPress Security Scan Product image: Hackertarget.com)
You will see that the check returns a number of results and information about your website …
(Hackertarget – WP security check results. Product image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you are able to see all of this information about your site, then so can hackers.
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The ability 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 valuable information to hackers, as this informs them about potentially exploitable vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple solution that can stop broadcasting all of this information about your web site and make your site invisible to malicious users and botnets.
Blog Defender WordPress Security Plugin
Product Description
The product is a package of WordPress security video tutorials, WordPress plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the developer of the BlogDefender security suit began looking for a way to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress blog he set up for his mother had been hacked into and suspended by the webhost. This site was quite new and had practically nothing of value 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 taken place inside the server, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into his site.
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Matt’s experience demonstrates that every website has some value to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you WordPress installation for security weaknesses …
And then shows you how to easily fix these …
Blog Defender – WordPress Plugins
The product suite includes three WordPress plugins:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender product suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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This plugin lets you do automated site, file and data backups to your server, third-party servers and popular cloud solutions using different backup methods (including FTP and email backups), automate complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from your backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (for site migrations), search and replace text in your WordPress database, perform auto database scans and repairs, and more.
The second plugin provides WordPress security …
(Source: BlogDefender website)
The plugin provides a range of site security functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 lets you scan WordPress sites to see whether any code in your files has been changed, and repair any problems found …
(Source: BlogDefender website)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious content 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 providing any benefit in return).
Blog Defender – Videos
In addition to plugins, the Blog Defender suite of products also includes 7 step-by-step training modules (video) plus PDF/DOC documentation that show you exactly what you need to do to protect your site from malicious attacks …
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Go here to learn more:
Plugin Benefits
Below are just a few of the benefits and advantages of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your site:
Easy To Install
The plugins included with Blog Defender install like every other WP plugin. Just upload a zip folder that contains the plugins to your Plugin folder via your WP administrator area and activate.
Very Simple And Easy To Follow
Blog Defender can be used as a practical training product that will take you through the website security process and show you exactly what to do, including how to set everything up, and even which free WordPress plugins you should use to get the job done without paying unnecessary expenses.
Additional benefits of using this plugin include:
- Secure your WordPress website from hackers, spammers, botnets, data mining tools and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Secure Your Info Products – If you are an information product author (e.g. downloadable e-books, video tutorials, etc.), your product can end up becoming freeware on free downloading sites.
- Avoid A Nightmare Situation – When a website has been hacked, expect to go through a great deal of frustration and aggravation. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. As a result, your, account could get closed by your webhost, or even blocked by search engines. In addition, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your business details or financial information, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and a whole lot more.
Plugin Features
Blog Defender provides many unique features to WP users.
The product provides fixes for all of the following areas:
- Host Security Advisory
- WordPress 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 Blocking
- File Monitoring
- Tracking Links
- Block Known Offenders
- Automate Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighten Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Online Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical process to help secure your website, addressing hosting security, using scanning and detection tools to quickly identify risky themes and WordPress plugins, and then implementing site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender WordPress security process. Product image: BlogDefender.com)
User Testimonials
Here are a few of the testimonials users have provided for the Blog Defender security products:
“You are literally walked through the process!” Nikki Stephens, www.nikkistephens.com
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”A top level force against hacker attacks!” Micheal Nicholas, Impact Info Marketing
Useful Tips
According to Matt Garrett, the plugin developer, no sites using Blog Defender were hacked since Blog Defender’s release in 2012.
Matt Garrett, the product developer 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 ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the information and tools developers can get their hands on. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, won’t cost a fortune and it’s as good if not better than many web security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Blog Defender 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, 100% money-back guarantee.
Plugin 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.. Price = $47.00.
Note: Price details for the Blog Defender product can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the software sells for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual price charged by the software author 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 current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
In Conclusion
Regardless of the kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, securing your websites is something you cannot ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like ensuring that your WordPress software, plugins and WP themes are kept up-to-date, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Adopting security procedures like the one that Blog Defender provides, will help you understand what your security responsibilities as a website owner are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if the security on your site is compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid major security risks without costly solutions.
For complete details, visit the plugin website: Blog Defender Security Solution For WordPress Web Sites
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