Hack Attack: Just How Secure Is Your WordPress Blog

June 30th, 2009 by admin

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 people believe that their blogs are not worthy of a hacker's attention, but with more revenue coming into your blog, the more a hacker will be likely to hunt for that victim.

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. You may have spent years building your blog's reputation, and just one vulnerability discovered by a hacker can transform your years of work into a worthless mess.

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 you find the damage to your WordPress Blog quickly, the time you will lose trying to repair it will be costly on a variety of levels. Your visitors will remember the warnings they saw from your blog even if everything on your blog has been fixed. Once blog traffic is lost, ad revenue is also lost. In many cases this could mean the loss of affiliate sales since many affiliate networks require a certain level of website traffic.

WordPress Blog owners make the mistake of thinking that since the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they'll be able to catch the problem before it becomes a major disaster. They would have to take action and keep track of their Wordpress Blog every single minute. Five minutes under the control of a hacker can be enough to break the connection you have with your WordPress Blog visitors which can damage your blog forever.

WordPress blog owners can stay on top of their security updates from WordPress, but this still remains only a reactive step. There is something that every WordPress Blog owner can do to prevent a hacker from destroying their work and reputation.

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 show you how to find a blog's softspots and strengthens them. WordPress Secured users learn how to protect their important streams of income revenue. WordPress Secure will make the blogger secure, smart and will give them an awareness about their blog.

With Wordpress Secure you will get an included feature called 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.

WordPress blog owners don’t realize the time and knowledge that is required to repair a WordPress blog after it has been hacked. Stay steps ahead of any hacker with WordPress Secure which is an easy and educational package.

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