You may have heard about the recent brute force attacks on Wordpress blogs and Joomla sites. There’s even a commercially available web-based tool that is currently being used to launch brute force attacks, and it’s quite effective. There can be many disastrous repercussions from having your Wordpress blog hacked. Some of these will be discussed in this report. They could be simple and easily fixable, like simply losing access to your site for a few hours. Or they could be as disastrous as losing money, work or reputation!

 

Fortunately, there are a few things you can do to secure your Wordpress site against such attacks, and keep your site, your content, your products, your income, your data and your customer’s safe!

 

First, you’re going to learn about some of the biggest reasons why it’s absolutely vital that you secure your Wordpress installations immediately. Then you’ll learn a few things you can do right away to start protecting your site from hackers and other malicious attacks. Finally, you’ll find out how to get more help securing Wordpress when you’re ready.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction to WordPress Security Guard

Why Protect Wordpress?

Temporary Issues

Losing Content

Losing Product

Losing Money

Losing Personal Data

Losing Reputation 

Why Hackers Hack

Basic Wordpress Security

Update Wordpress

Choose a Good Username

Use a Strong Password

Vary Login Information Across Multiple Blogs

Don’t Use Usernames or Passwords from Other Sites

Limit Login Attempts

Two Factor Authentication

Password Protect wp-login.php

Change Database Prefixes

Hide Wordpress’ Version Number

Protect wp-config.php

CAPTCHA

Final Words

Get More Help!

 

Why Protect Wordpress?

 

There are a lot of things that can go wrong with a Wordpress blog, and some of those things could be absolutely disastrous to your business.

 

Temporary Issues

If you’re lucky (and by lucky, I’m referring to the best-case-scenario if you are hacked), you will only experience minor, temporary issues due to the hacking. These issues can still lead to big problems if you don’t notice them in time, but as far as hacking goes, this is about as benign as it gets.

Temporary issues are simple things such as having your password changed and being locked out of your blog for a few hours until you can get help getting back into it, or having your blog temporarily redirected to another site until you get in and fix it.

 

Losing Content

Much worse than having temporary issues, you could have a hacker log into your account and delete all of your articles. If you don’t have a backup, that could mean countless hours of hard work would be gone! Even if you back up regularly, you could still lose content added in between backups, along with comments, responses, new user information, and more. You could even lose a

backup because your web server is too full to perform the backup, and you might not realize this until it’s too late!

 

Losing Product

If you store virtual products on your server like videos, eBooks, graphics, or other content you are selling, those products could be stolen. Not only that, but hackers could then distribute that content widely, costing you potentially thousands of dollars in lost revenue!

 

Don’t think it matters when your content is distributed? Well, think about this. Many people have admitted that when they find a digital product they want badly, they will first check pirate sites to see if that product is available for free. If, and only if, it is not, then they will buy the product.

 

If you’re selling physical products, the damage could be even worse. A hacker could log into your site and create an order, making it look as though the order has been paid for, and you could unwittingly ship the items before you realize the money isn’t in your account. And so much more!

 

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