The scale of attacks on websites and blogs worldwide is massive, and the situation is getting worse.
It’s probably 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 over 162,000 WordPress-powered sites had been hacked.
Thousands of websites and blogs are attacked every year! Could yours be next?
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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 websites and direct a distributed-denial-of-service attack (DDoS) towards another popular website.
You may think that your site has no significant value to hackers, but the reality is that to a hacker, every website provides an opportunity to gain some advantage at your expense.
If hackers can discover a way to compromise the control of your website or blog, the blog can then be used to attack larger and more valuable web sites.
The harsh reality is that malicious bots are probably trying to hack into your website right now. Whether they can do this successfully will depend on how hard you will make it for hackers to keep trying until they find how to break in, or are forced to give up and go look for an easier target.
How Much Information Are You Broadcasting To Hackers About Your WordPress Site?
If you visit a site like Hackertarget.com and run your site through their WordPress security check …
(Hackertarget – WP Security Scan Screenshot: Hackertarget.com)
You will see that the check will yield a number of results and details about your website setup …
(WP security check results. Screenshot image: Hackertarget.com)
It should be obvious after using the tool shown above that if you are able to access all of this information, then so can hackers.
(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 can be useful information to hackers, as this can inform them about exploitable security vulnerabilities, especially in older versions.
Fortunately, there is a simple and inexpensive way to stop broadcasting all of this information about your site and make your site invisible to hackers and botnets.
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 the BlogDefender security suit developed BlogDefender after noticing that a WordPress site he set up for his mother got hacked into and suspended by its hosting company. This blog had literally no value to offer, yet it still was targeted by hackers.
Matt only became aware of the event after being informed by his host and observing that a significant amount of suspicious activity had occurred within the site, as well as the addition of a number of malicious files designed to lure visitors to the site and hijack their financial details.
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Matt’s experience demonstrates that every website has some value to hackers.
Blog Defender shows you where the security holes in your web site are …
And let’s you easily fix these …
Blog Defender – Plugins
The Blog Defender security product suite comes with three plugins:
Pro Plugin #1 “Automated Backups” in the Blog Defender suite helps you schedule automated backups …
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This plugin lets you do secure backups to your server, third-party servers and well-known cloud solutions using a number of backup methods (including FTP and email backups), automate complete or partial backups, exclude tables or files from your backups, restore backups, replace URLs (useful when migrating sites to different domains or server locations), search and replace text strings in your database, perform malware scans and blacklist checks automatically, and more.
Pro Plugin #2 “WP Security” provides WordPress security …
(Screenshot image: BlogDefender site)
The plugin performs a range of website protection functions (see “Product Features” section below).
Pro Plugin # 3 allows you to scan WordPress sites to detect whether any code in your files has been changed, and repair problems …
(Product image source: BlogDefender website)
Pro Plugin # 3 also scans content to see if any malicious URLs have been added to your site files, bans bad bots, blocks brute force attacks and detects any content leeching (where others benefit from your work without reciprocating the favor).
Video Training
In addition to the plugins, Blog Defender also includes several videos plus training documentation that will teach you exactly how to protect your site from malicious users …
(Source: BlogDefender.com)
For more details, visit the plugin site here:
Benefits
Here are 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 Minutes
The Blog Defender plugins are quite easy to install. Just upload them to your Plugins folder via your WP dashboard and activate.
Really Simple And Easy To Follow
Blog Defender can be used as a step-by-step training product that will take you through the website security process and show you exactly what to do, including how to set things up, and even which free WordPress plugins you should use to get things done without paying for extra expenses.
Additional benefits of the plugin include:
- Secure your website from hackers, spammers, bad bots, data miners 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 info product creator (e.g. downloadable e-books, video tutorials, etc.), your product can end up as freeware on free downloading sites.
- Avoid Getting Blacklisted By Your Host – When a website gets hacked, expect to go through a great deal of inconvenience and heartache. It can take days to uncover the problem and sort through the issues these have caused. In the meantime, your, sites can be closed by your host, or even blocked by search engines. Additionally, 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.
Plugin Features
Blog Defender offers many unique features to WordPress users.
Blog Defender helps you fix the following security areas and vulnerabilities:
- Hosting Security Advisory
- WordPress Plugin Security Audits
- WP Theme Security Audits
- Anti Brute Force Security
- Anti Cross-Site Scripting
- WP Database Security
- Nefarious Traffic Blocking
- Hiding WordPress ‘Tell Tale’ Signs
- Anti-Comment Spam Blocking
- File Monitoring
- Tracking Links
- Block Known Offenders
- Automating WordPress Updates
- WordPress Security Audit
- Tighter Server Security
- Kick Out Policy
- Reputation Checking
- And More …
Blog Defender uses a logical process to help secure your website, addressing potential hosting security issues, using tools to identify risky themes and WP plugins, and then helping you implement website-wide security using the tools and plugins provided.
(Blog Defender WordPress security process. Source: BlogDefender site)
Testimonials From Users
Here are just a few of the testimonials customers have submitted for Blog Defender:
“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 the plugin developer, Matt Garrett, since Blog Defender was first released, no websites or blogs using Blog Defender were hacked.
Matt Garrett, the product developer 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 an ever-escalating arms race and all security solutions are only as good as the knowledge and tools that developers can currently get their hands on. The latest release of Blog Defender creates an easier security solution that doesn’t require constant attention, is quite inexpensive and it’s as good if not better than many premium security products or services currently being offered at a higher price.
Product 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 refund guarantee.
Product Price
Blog Defender is normally available with a personal license only for use 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: Price details for the Blog Defender product depends on whether there are any promotions or limited-time specials being offered. The price shown above was current when this content was written. This may not be the actual price set by the product author when you visit the 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 Information
For installation instructions and tutorials, FAQs, support help desk, contact details and more, visit the Blog Defender website.
Get The 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 or blog is something you simply cannot afford to ignore.
WordPress is a very secure web platform, but neglecting simple maintenance tasks like updating your WordPress installation, WP plugins and themes, tightening file and data protection and taking other necessary precautions can have disastrous consequences.
Blog Defender helps you understand what your security responsibilities as a website owner are, what hosting companies can and can’t do if your sites are attacked, what security features to look for in a webhost, and how to avoid major WordPress security holes without paying a lot of money.
For more information, visit the plugin website here: Blog Defender
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