The scale of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is massive, and things are getting worse.
It’s 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 are attacked every year! Could yours be next?
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender site)
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 flaw to attack unsuspecting WP sites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every website or blog with a security vulnerability can be seen as a potential opportunity to hackers. No blog is completely immune from a cyber attack. Large, medium and small websites, personal blogs, government sites … even sites owned by online security and anti-hacking experts can and have been targeted.
If a malicious user can find a security opening that lets them gain remote control of your web site, the website can then be employed to attack larger and more highly-valued web sites.
The truth is that software-driven bots are very likely trying to break into your website while you are reading this article right now. Whether they will be successful or not, will depend on how difficult you have made it for hackers and bots to keep trying until they can discover how to get access, or are forced to give up and decide to look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your Site?
Does your website run on WordPress? If so visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security scan …
(Hackertarget – WP Security Check Source: Hackertarget.com)
You will see that the scan will display various results and details about your site setup …
(Hackertarget – WordPress security scan results. Screenshot image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the scanning tool that if you are able to access all of this information, then hackers can too.
(Source: Blog Defender)
The ability to see what 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 are all potentially useful information to hackers, as this informs them about exploitable security weaknesses, especially where site owners haven’t updated their sites.
Fortunately, there is a solution to stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and make your site invisible to hackers and bots.
Blog Defender Security Product Suite For WordPress Blogs
Product Description
Blog Defender is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, WordPress plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the creator of BlogDefender began developing BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress blog he set up for his mother had been hacked into. This particular blog was fairly new and so had practically nothing of value to offer, yet it still was targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of the event after being informed by his host and noticing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had taken place within the server, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into the site.
(Image source: Blog Defender)
This example demonstrates that all websites have value to hackers.
Blog Defender scans you WordPress installation for potential security vulnerabilities …
And then shows you how to fix these quickly, easily and inexpensively …
Blog Defender – WordPress Plugins
The Blog Defender security suite of products includes 3 plugins for WordPress:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot source: Blog Defender)
The “Automated Backups” plugin lets you do secure backups to your server, external servers and cloud-based storage solutions using a number of backup methods (e.g. Email), schedule full or partial backups, exclude files or tables from your 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.
Pro Plugin # 2 provides your WordPress website or blog with security …
(Image source: BlogDefender website)
The plugin provides a range of site protection functions (see “Blog Defender Features” section below).
The third plugin lets you scan your content and files to detect whether anything in your files has been modified, and repair problems …
(Product image source: BlogDefender site)
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 providing you any reciprocal benefit or value in return).
Blog Defender – Tutorials Videos
In addition to plugins, Blog Defender also includes 7 step-by-step video tutorial modules plus PDF/DOC guides that will teach you exactly how to protect your site from malicious attacks …
(Product image source: BlogDefender website)
Learn more here:
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 site:
Be Up And Running In No Time
The plugins install just like any other WordPress plugin. Just upload the plugin files to your Plugin folder via your WP admin login and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as a do-it-yourself step-by-step training product that will walk you through the website security process and show you exactly what to do, including how to set things up, and even which free plugins you should use to get the job done.
Additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Protect your WordPress site from hackers, spammers, botnets, data miners and malicious users whose aims is to ruin your business for personal and financial gain at your expense.
- Prevent Your Info Products From Theft – If you sell an information product (e.g. downloadable ebooks, videos, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid Getting Suspended By Your Web Host And Banned By Search Engines – When a website gets hacked, you can expect to go through a serious amount of frustration and aggravation. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through any issues these have caused. As a result, your, sites can get suspended by your webhost, or even blacklisted in search engines. In addition, your personal contacts could end up being spammed, your customer list and financial details could be stolen, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender hide your WordPress web site from hackers and botnets.
Blog Defender covers the following security areas:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- WP Plugin Security Audits
- WordPress Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- MySQL Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hiding WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam Blocking
- Monitoring Files
- Link Monitoring
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automating WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical sequence of steps to help protect your web site, addressing hosting security, using tools to quickly identify risky themes and WordPress plugins, and then implementing website-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender security process. Product image: BlogDefender website)
User Feedback
Here are a couple of the testimonials and comments that users have provided for Blog Defender:
”Great way to secure your blog!” JohnThornhill – www.johnthornhill.com
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”Just one tip could have prevented my blogs getting hacked!” Richard Legg – www.richard-legg.com
Plugin Tips
According to Matt Garrett’s site, since Blog Defender was first released back in 2012, no Blog Defender-protected websites or blogs have been hacked.
Matt Garrett also 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 information and tools developers currently can harness. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier WordPress security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, doesn’t cost a fortune and it’s as good if not better than many premium 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, thirty day, complete money-back guarantee.
Software Price
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: The cost to purchase the Blog Defender software depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time special offers. Currently, the software retails for the pricing shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the product developer when you visit the product site and there may be additional upsells or one-time offers after you’ve purchased.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Plugin Info
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support helpdesk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Buy This Product
Regardless of the kind 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 ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting essential maintenance tasks like keeping your WP installation, plugins and themes up-to-date, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can expose your site to attacks by hackers and bots.
Adopting security procedures like the one that 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 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 details, check out the plugin here: Blog Defender
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