WordPress security tips and hacker defense

From WordPress cores, theme and plugin security, to username and password best practices and database backups.

Other topics to consider include:

• Layered security measures, such as using .htaccess files to enable or disable features
• Restrict file permissions
• Blacklist and whitelist IP
• Disable file editing
• Use HTTPS

WordPress Security
If you run a large commercial website and are hacked, you may lose valuable customers and of course have money. Web hosts may suspend hacked accounts and take your site offline. When your website goes down, you don't want to waste time fixing the website after hacking or paid hosting.

Why is WordPress so successful?
WordPress is the world's most popular content management system and now accounts for 20% of all websites. Its success is attributed to its intuitive interface and its facts of free and open source. Its features offer unlimited options to extend functionality by adding plugins and to customize your site with themes and widgets. There are thousands of paid and free themes and plugins on the web, and the option to create a website that is both functional and absolutely yours is almost limitless.

Why is WordPress under attack?
These same features are the most common way we expose websites to attacks. Because WordPress is open source, anyone can easily browse the core code or search for any of the most popular themes and plugins. These are WordPress projects that you can't control.

Your host and WordPress hacking
Unless you spend a lot of money on your web hosting server, you can't control the hosting environment in which your site runs.

Brute force attack
Brute force attacks are also beyond your control. Although you can't always stop them, you can take steps to limit damage and make it difficult for someone to successfully crack your site. Even tech giants like Microsoft, Apple and Amazon have already ruined their security. No website, WordPress or other, is completely secure. What you have to do is identify which weaknesses exist and create additional layers of defense to protect your content when your site is hacked. Use as many common solutions as possible to help manage website weakening caused by human error.

A brute force attack took months and involved thousands of servers worldwide. All managed service providers that offer WordPress are potential target hackers using infected servers and PCs to crack websites' administrator panels by using "admin" as the host of the account name, and weak passwords resolved by brute force attack methods .

4 point vulnerability
1. Host security vulnerability
2. Data WordPress Core
3. Insecure plugins and themes
Brute force attack

Managing WordPress-supported sites is the most valuable security tool you can use.

• Speed
• Option
• Service
• Safety
• Backup solution
• Control
• Server type
• Price point

Choosing WordPress to power your website means that WordPress is the foundation of everything on your site. The fact that it is free and open source brings many benefits. But with each update, the previous version of the exploit will be open to the public, making the previous version more vulnerable. By using fallback security with the default policy, you can remove or hide the version number of your WordPress installation. You can even use a plugin to choose a simpler solution to hide the version number. This may prevent bots from being attached to your site, but this will not fix vulnerabilities in older versions of WordPress. Updating a WordPress installation will only remove the released vulnerability if a new version is available.

Updating WordPress is easy [because version 3.7 was released with automatic updates]
In previous versions of WordPress, the new version of the banner was displayed in the dashboard whenever an update was available. Now, the WordPress installation will automatically update to the new minor version without having to raise your finger. Minor versions are typically used for security updates. However, you still need to update the new major version.

To update WordPress

1. The first thing to do! Back up your WordPress.
2. Dashboard
3. Update

The biggest threat to your site
The fastest way to break a website, including adding bad, malicious code or outdated themes or plugins from untrusted developers or websites. Due to the open source nature of WordPress, many themes or plugins are distributed under the GPL or GPN [General Public License] license. Therefore, by adding hidden or malicious code, you can easily fork and redistribute themes and plugins on free WordPress themes and plugin sites. This code can be as simple as exposing a virus, or as serious as exposing your visitors to identity theft.

Before downloading free themes or plugins:

1. Research author, only download from author website or WordPress repository
2. Make suggestions on WordPress.org/support
3. If you plan to use it for free trust Plugin or theme, check the version number compatibility list and verify that the plugin or theme is still supported and updated. Many topics or plugins are difficult to receive updates or are abandoned.
4. If you don't use it, lose it. If you don't use a theme or plugin, remove it.
5. Use paid support for themes and plugins [not free].

Experience has shown that almost all WordPress attacks can be protected and protected by simply using secure, up-to-date and trusted plugins and themes.

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