July 5, 2009
Hack Attack: Just How Secure Is Your WordPress Blog
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People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, “If you want to be a success you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”
The vulnerability discovered by hackers is the WordPress Blog. Many believe that they will never be hacked, but as your blog gains popularity, the hackers will start searching for vulnerabilities.
The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, if one hacker got through, even if the matter is resolved quickly, it can still damage all the work the owner has already done on the blog. If it's a blog full of content with years of archive material, a hacker's attack will turn all of that work into worthless untrustworthy words.
The attacks launched on WordPress Blogs by hackers get even worse for the blog owners. Google, for example, when (not if) their robots detect something suspicious about a WordPress Blog will include the following in the search result for that WordPress Blog.
“This site may harm your computer.”
If a person clicks on that phrase, which appears as a link within the search result listing, they will be taken to a page that will repeat the warning of harm to their computer and suggest that they go to another site or blog that came up in their search results.
Even if a WordPress Blog owner catches the damage quickly, the time it will take to repair that blog's reputation will be costly at a variety of levels. People will remember the warnings of computer harm no matter how strongly it's presented that all with that WordPress Blog is well. Once blog traffic is lost, ad revenue is also lost. In many cases this could mean the loss of advertisers since many affiliate ad programs require a specific level of traffic activity.
WordPress Blog owners mistakingly think that the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they will catch the problem before any major damage is done. They would need to remain proactive and not reactive, meaning they would need to be monitoring their WordPress blog every minute of each hour of the day. Only five minutes under the control of a hacker can destroy the connection that a WordPress Blog has made with every single person who visits the site at that point.
WordPress blog owners can stay on top of their security updates from WordPress, but this still remains only a reactive step. There is a proactive step every WordPress Blog owner can take to prevent hackers from destroying the work and reputation of their WordPress Blog.
Internet developer and expert James Stein, who has 15 years experience in program development, is the creator of WordPress Secured. Instead of one plug-in fix after another, WordPress Secured brings total security to every WordPress Blog that anyone can learn and benefit from.
WordPress Secured takes you step by step and teaches you to plug the back doors on your WordPress blogs which hackers exploit. It teaches you how to discover a blog's weak spots and will strengthen them. Users discover how to protect their important avenues of ad revenue. WordPress Secure is not only a smart tool but it will make the blogger more aware about their blog.
WordPress Secure contains the added feature of BadBot Killer.This script puts a halt to those bad bots that scan a WordPress blog’s vulnerabilities that are open to blog hackers. BadBot-Killer is a script that will stop the hackers before they can locate a open hole in a website or blog.
The knowledge that is required to repair a hacked WordPress blog can be above many blog owners. WordPress Secure is one easy and educational package that keeps the WordPress Blog owner steps ahead any hacker.
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