How to Protect Your WordPress Site From Hackers

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Whether you’re maintaining a personal blog, putting together a portfolio, or building a business website, security is paramount. As a platform, WordPress is hit more than almost any other by cybercriminals. Don’t worry, though. Securing your site is actually a lot easier than you’d expect. 

Security can be overwhelming. Even a user-friendly content management system (CMS) like WordPress is, when you look under the hood, fairly technically complex (at least for a layperson). At the same time, it’s not something you can afford to ignore,  even if you’re just using WordPress to host a simple digital portfolio.

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SQL Injection – The Old Trick that Keeps on Giving

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If you’ve never heard of an SQL injection, don’t worry; it’s a term that only really entered the public consciousness in the last few years. Describing a way for hackers and other criminals to steal data, an SQL injection basically makes let’s malicious people inject bad code into a website’s database and then they can tamper with the website, such as by sending customer details to somebody outside a company. [Read more…]

Here’s What You Need to Secure Your WordPress Site in 2014 & Beyond

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Internet security is the only topic on the web that I can predict will always be in the headlines as long as mankind and internet technologies exist. As we take exponential leaps and bounds in technological advancements, security is an issue that is always there to keep us busy. An increased number of our most valuable assets are gradually being transferred online in the form of private data, financial information and general web presences and the opportunities for exploitation by scammers and thieves increase. Our reliance on the web can potentially be our greatest downfall. Especially those of us who are not prepared.

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As you search the web you’ll find a plethora of articles on how to secure your WordPress blog but you won’t find articles that point out the overall evolution of online threats and the fact that exploits and attack maneuvers are becoming tremendously complex and smarter and WordPress sites are at great risk. Keeping your WordPress installation up to date, tweaked and cleaned won’t cut it for total security. [Read more…]

How to Keep WordPress Locked Down with Duo Security

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WordPress blogs are one of many targets for hackers, and with so many people making simple mistakes, it becomes clear why. There are many ways of protecting your blog, and we’ve outlined five mistakes you might be making. While using a stronger password or keeping your plugins and theme updated tend to be common advice, you can take additional measures. In fact, you can ensure that absolutely no one, even if they were to get your password, will ever be able to access your blog.

Two-factor authentication is a wonderful thing, and was first used in the workplace to protect sensitive data. Nowadays, companies like Google or Microsoft offer the functionality, and all that’s required is a mobile phone. How it works is when you go to login someplace, and have two-factor authentication enabled, you are required to enter a special pin. For example, Google has its “Authenticator” app which you fire up to see the special pin, or you can opt to receive a text message or phone call instead. A special pin isn’t always required, and Twitter recently implemented its own solution which involves approving a trusted device. [Read more…]