The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs around the world is increasing on a daily basis, 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 began reporting that 160,000+ WordPress-powered web sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites 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)
According to 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.
You may think that the information in your website or blog provides no value to hackers, but the reality is that every website is valuable to a malicious user.
If hackers can exploit a security weakness and gain control of your website or blog, the website or blog can then be employed to attack more valued sites.
The truth is that software-driven bots are most likely trying to hack into your website or blog as you are reading this article. Whether they will achieve this depends on how hard you will make it for them to continue persisting until they can either discover how to break in, or give up and decide to look for a more vulnerable target.
How Much Information About Your Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security scan …
(Website Security Scan Product image source: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the test will return various results and details about your site setup …
(WP security scan results. Source: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the above tool that if you are able to access all of this information about your WordPress site, so can hackers.
(Screenshot source: Blog Defender)
The ability 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 potentially valuable information to hackers, as these can inform them about potential holes or weaknesses, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can stop broadcasting all of this information about your website and make your site invisible to malicious attackers and bots.
Blog Defender
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 developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress-driven site he set up for his mother had been hacked into and suspended by the webhost. This particular blog had practically nothing of value to offer, yet it still was targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of what had happened after being informed by his host and noticing that a significant amount of unusual activity had occurred inside the site, as well as the addition of several malicious files designed to drive visitors to the site and steal Paypal account information.
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Matt’s experience provides the valuable lesson that all websites are valuable to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security holes in your web site are …
And then shows you how to fix these quickly, easily and inexpensively …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product includes three WordPress plugins:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the Blog Defender product suite provides automated backups …
(Screenshot: BlogDefender site)
Plugin #1 lets you do automated site, file and data backups to your server, external servers and cloud-based backup solutions using a number of backup methods, automate complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from your backups, restore backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating websites to new domains or server locations), search and replace text strings in your database, perform auto database scans and repairs, and more.
Pro Plugin # 2 provides WordPress security …
(Product image: BlogDefender site)
Plugin #2 “WP Security” provides a range of vital site and file security functions (see “Plugin Features” section below).
Plugin #3 scans your website to see if anything has been tampered with, and repair any problems it finds …
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender.com)
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been added to your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your content without reciprocating the favor).
Videos
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes step-by-step training videos plus training documentation that will show you exactly what to do to protect your website from hackers and bots …
(Product image: BlogDefender site)
Go here to learn more:
Plugin Benefits
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits of using Blog Defender to make your WordPress site invisible to hackers and botnets on your website:
Be Up And Running In Very Little Time
The Blog Defender plugins install like any regular WordPress plugin. Simply upload them to your Plugins folder via your dashboard and activate.
Simple And Easy To Follow
Blog Defender is an easy-to-follow step-by-step training product that walks you through the website security process and shows you what to do, including how to set things up, and even which free plugins to install to get the job done inexpensively.
Some additional benefits and advantages include the following:
- Secure your WordPress 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.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you sell an info product (e.g. downloadable e-books, video training, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid Getting Blacklisted By Search Engines – When a website has been hacked, expect to go through a whole lot of inconvenience and aggravation. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through the issues these have caused. As a result, your, websites can be closed by your host, or even deindexed by search engines. And if that is not painful enough, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal or financial information, you could be fined or even charged with fraud, and more.
Blog Defender Features
Blog Defender offers many features to WP users.
Blog Defender addresses the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- WP Plugin Security Audits
- WP Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WordPress Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hide WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam
- Monitor Files
- Link Monitoring
- Known Offender Blocking
- Automate Core WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical process for securing your your WordPress installation, addressing potential hosting security issues, using scanning and detection tools to quickly identify risky themes and WordPress plugins, and then helping you implement site-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender security process. Screenshot image: Blog Defender)
Feedback From Users
Here are just some testimonials and comments that customers have provided for Blog Defender:
“You are literally walked through the process!” Nikki Stephens, www.nikkistephens.com
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”I discovered some incredible security tricks!” David Walker – www.inboxrockstar.com
Useful Tips
According to Matt Garrett’s site, since Blog Defender’s first release in 2012, no websites or blogs protected with the product were hacked.
Matt Garrett also 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.”
The war on hackers is is a constant game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and technologies that developers can currently access. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier security solution that doesn’t need 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.
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, 100% refund 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.. Cost = $47.00.
Please Note: Pricing details of Blog Defender depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. Presently, the product is selling for the prices shown above. This may not be the actual pricing charged by the plugin developer when you visit the plugin website and you may be shown additional upsells or one-time offers after your purchase.
Check the plugin’s website for current pricing details:
Additional Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Download This Product
No matter what 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 cannot ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting basic maintenance tasks like ensuring that your WP core files, WordPress plugins and themes are kept updated to their latest versions, tightening file and data security and taking other necessary precautions can expose your site to malicious by hackers and bots.
Adopting a security procedure such as the one that Blog Defender provides, will help you understand what’s going on in your site and where the vulnerabilities are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if the security on your website is compromised, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the task of securing your WordPress installation easier.
For more details, visit the plugin website here: Blog Defender
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