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Introduction

Recently, many brute force attacks on Joomla and Wordpress sites have been happening, maybe you have heard about this as well?

The odd thing is that there is even an effective online tool available that can be bought and used for these attacks.

Someone hacking into your Wordpress blog may have quite a few disastrous effects on your business. This report will give you an overview of some of them. Some of these are quite simple and can be fixed quickly – for example when you lose access to your website for a little while.

On the other hand, some could be very serious and you could end up losing your work, reputation and money!

The good news is there is always a solution, and even in this case there are things you could do to ensure that your WordPress blog will never have to deal with attacks like these. You will be able to keep your website, its content, your income, data, products and customers safe.

So let’s get started protecting your WordPress site.

Why You Need To Protect Your Wordpress?

If your site gets hacked for whatever reason, the best-case-scenario is that you will have temporary issues like discovering that you’re locked out and can't access your site since your password has been changed. It may take an hour or two to get back in. It could also be that your site is redirected to some other site and you can fix it quickly.

What you need to be weary of though are the major problems that could occur as a result of an attack.

Lost Content

It would be a much worse problem if someone hacked into your blog and deleted your content and articles. If you haven't backed it up, you could end up losing all the hard work you have done in an instant! Even if you do keep regular backups, any content you have added in between them, also comments, new user details, responses and all the rest will be gone. Sometimes your web server may be too full to make these backups and you could still end up losing your work even if you have automatic backups set up – just make sure it doesn't happen.

Lost Personal Data

Sensitive information that you have stored on your website may also be copied and later used by the person hacking your blog. They may especially be targeting all the financial information, passwords, emails or other sensitive info.

It is even worse if your WordPress password is the same as your email, banking and other critical accounts, it could bring about other catastrophic problems such as identity theft and financial loss.

The Basics Of Wordpress Security So let’s take a look at some of the things that can be done to make WordPress installations more secure. Every time you set up a new blog, take these steps to secure the site, and of course apply them to your current sites as well.

Update Your WordPress Installations

The first thing to do is to update your WordPress often, this protects well against hackers. WordPress has security updates often, not all updates have to be about new functionality or the appearance of the dashboard or the blog.

Change Your Username

See to it that you don't use a simple username to get you in your dashboard. It should not be easy to figure out and never ever use “admin” as your username! Since it's there by default, many people use it. You have to avoid it at all costs.

Your own name and variations should be off limits. Also, nothing related to the name of your blog or the niche you are in. Any variations of your email should be avoided and don't use the same username with other accounts.

Select A Strong Password

Having a strong password to log in to your blog is critical, but still most people use something that's easy for them to remember as they never think about getting hacked. This could end up costing you big time. Try to include both letters (lowercase and capital) and numbers in your password, and also use 8 characters or more.

Don't use variations of your name, username, birthday, email, anniversary, mobile number or other info that the hacker could access. Common passwords that many use are also off limits.

Here is a list of some of the common passwords people use:

Password
Trustno1
Love
Iloveyou
Sex
Letmein
Money
Qwerty
God
Abc123
12345678

Don't us these or anything similar! It's a good idea to use a password generator and let it generate one for you. There are plenty of these generators available and they do give you a secure password.

Set A Limit To Login Attempts

This is a simple and an excellent way to protect your blog from brute force attacks. WordPress has several plugins available that let you set a limit to unsuccessful login attempts. Another useful plugin is the one that lets you whitelist certain IP addresses so you don't end up locking yourself out.

It could be disturbing if you forget or mistype your password and are locked out of your own site. However, it is still worth that extra security you get! This can be easily avoided by using a whitelist plugin and adding all the IP addresses you usually log in from.

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