The sheer number of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is rising, and things are only going to get 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 reported that 162,000 WordPress-powered websites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites are attacked every year! Will yours be one of them?
(Image source: BlogDefender website)
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 WP websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service cyberattack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
Every site with a security vulnerability can can provide an opportunity to hackers. A vulnerable site provides malicious users with a platform to launch denial of service attacks, spread malware and engage in information theft.
If someone can discover a web software flaw, the website can then be employed as a “bot” to attack larger and more valued sites.
The truth is that hackers are most likely trying to hack into your site while you are reading this. Whether they will break into your site successfully will depend on how hard or easy you have made it for them to continue persisting until they can discover how to get access, or decide to look for an easier target.
How Much Information About Your Site Are You Broadcasting To Hackers?
If you visit Hackertarget.com and run your website through their WordPress security check …
(WP Security Scan Screenshot image: https://hackertarget.com/wordpress-security-scan)
You will see that the scan will yield various results and details about your site …
(Hackertarget – WordPress security check results. Screenshot image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the tool shown above that if you are able to freely access all of this information about your blog, hackers can too.
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
The ability to see which version of WordPress you are using, which plugins and themes you have installed, and which files have been uploaded to certain directories in your site are all potentially useful information to hackers, as these can inform them about potentially exploitable holes or weaknesses, especially where the owners haven’t updated their sites.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive solution that will stop broadcasting all of this information about your web site and protect against other malicious threats.
Blog Defender
Product Description
Blog Defender is a suite of WordPress security video tutorials, plugins and tools, plus a WordPress security PDF/DOC file.
Matt Garrett, the developer of BlogDefender began looking for a way to develop BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress-driven site he set up for his mother got hacked into. This blog was almost brand new and so had literally nothing of value to offer, yet it was still attacked.
Matt only became aware of the event after being contacted by his host and seeing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred within the site, as well as the addition of several phishing files by whoever had broken into his mother’s site.
(Screenshot: Blog Defender)
This example is evidence that all websites have some value to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where potential security weaknesses in your WordPress installation are …
And let’s you quickly fix these …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product suite comes with 3 plugins for WordPress:
Plugin #1 in the Blog Defender suite helps you schedule automated backups …
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender.com)
Plugin #1 lets you do secure site and file backups to your server, third-party servers and cloud backup solutions using different backup methods (including FTP and email backups), schedule complete or partial backups, exclude files or tables from your backups, restore previous backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating websites to new domains or server locations), search and replace text in your WordPress database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin #2 “WP Security” provides your website or blog with security …
(Image source: BlogDefender website)
The plugin performs a range of file and site security functions (see “Features” section below).
The third plugin lets you scan WordPress sites to detect whether anything in your files has been tampered with, and repair any problems detected …
(Product image source: Blog Defender)
Plugin #3 “WP Scan & Repair” also scans content to see if any malicious scripts have been inserted into your site, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where people benefit from your hard work without reciprocating the favor).
Blog Defender – Training Videos
In addition to plugins, the Blog Defender suite of products also includes 7 step-by-step video tutorial modules plus downloadable documentation that show you exactly what you need to do to protect your website from hackers and bots …
(Screenshot source: BlogDefender.com)
Learn more here:
Benefits Of Using Blog Defender
Below we have listed just some of the many benefits and advantages 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 plugins included in the Blog Defender product suite install like every other plugin. Just upload them to your Plugin folder via your WordPress administrator account and activate.
Very Simple And Easy To Follow Training
Blog Defender can be used as an easy-to-follow 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 use for free to get the job done inexpensively.
Some additional plugin benefits include the following:
- Secure your WordPress website from hackers, spammers, botnets, data mining tools and malicious users attempting to ruin your business for their own personal and financial gain.
- Helps Avoid Intellectual Property Theft – If you sell digital products (e.g. downloadable e-books, video training, etc.), your work can be stolen and end up as freeware on free download sites.
- Avoid Getting Blocked By Search Engines – When a site gets hacked, you can expect to go through a serious amount of frustration and heartache. It can take days to uncover problems and sort through the issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, websites could be closed by your host, or even blacklisted by search engines. And if this is not enough to have to deal with, hackers can spam your contact list and steal your personal details and financial information, you could end up being fined or even charged with fraud, and much more.
Features
Blog Defender offers many great features to website owners.
The product provides fixes for all of the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Webhost Security Advisory
- Plugin Security Audits
- WP 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
- Monitor Files
- Link Monitoring
- Block Known Offenders
- Automate Core WP Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighten Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender follows a logical sequence of steps to help secure your your WordPress installation, addressing potential hosting security issues, using scanning and detection 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. Source: BlogDefender website)
Testimonials From Customers
Below are some of the testimonials that customers have provided for Blog Defender:
”This is a seriously good product!” Simon Hodgkinson, www.hodgkinsonpublishing.com
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”I sure wish I’d had this before I lost over a dozen blogs just recently. Okay, it was my fault for not securing things more, BUT… I didn’t have a handy, current reference like this to turn to for quick help either.;)” Kathe Lucas – www.wackycentral.com
Plugin Tips
According to the plugin developer, Matt Garrett, since Blog Defender was first released back in 2012, no Blog Defender-protected sites have been hacked.
Matt Garrett, the product developer 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 is a never-ending game of cat and mouse and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and tools that developers can currently harness. The latest release of Blog Defender provides users with 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.
Product Licensing 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.. Price = $47.00.
Please Note: The cost to purchase Blog Defender can vary, depending on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. When we last checked, the plugin retails for the amounts shown above. This may or may not be the actual pricing set by the software seller 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 Info
For help documentation and tutorials, FAQs, customer help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
What We Recommend
No matter what kind of business you run or plan to run online and how small you think your web presence is, web security is something you cannot ignore.
WordPress is a secure platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress installation, WordPress plugins and WP themes, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can expose your website to attacks by hackers and bots.
Blog Defender helps 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 attacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and which tools can make the process of securing your WordPress website easier.
For complete details, visit the plugin website: Blog Defender
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