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WordPress is a wonderful CMS to use to bring your site online and manage your content. As your site gets more popular, you are more likely to face hack attacks. While the WordPress core is secure, there are things you can do to harden WordPress and protect your server against hack attacks. Here are 18 ways you can use plugins to monitor, protect, and recover your site (after a hack attack): [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingMany of us have had to deal with hackers and malicious bots attacking our sites in the past. You can always use .htaccess or NGINX directives and other tools to get a handle on this issue. These bad bot blocking plugins can also prove useful:
iThemes Security: one of the best security plugins around. It gives you plenty of ways to lock down your site and stop attacks. You will be able to detect and block annoying bots and monitor your filesystem for unauthorized changes. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingWordPress is a pretty secure platform but it can still get hacked if you are not careful. Monitoring your site for file changes, protecting your login pages, updating themes/plugins, and preventing malicious requests are just a few ways to protect your site. WProtect is a plugin that checks your plugins and themes to let you know if there are any vulnerabilities.
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Continue ReadingWordPress sites are hacked and attacked all the time. You may not be able to stop every hack attack, but you can minimize your risk by hiding what you are running on your server. WP Hide & Security Enhancer is one plugin for the job. It hides your files, themes, and plugins paths from being shown.
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Continue ReadingPopular WordPress websites are a victim of brute force attacks, spam, and malicious requests all the time. While WordPress is a fairly secure platform right out of the box, there are many plugins you can use to harden it. Access Watch for WordPress lets you approach WordPress security in a more proactive fashion.
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Continue ReadingRunning plugins with vulnerabilities is one way to get your site hacked. Not everyone spends time to keep up with WordPress security news on a daily basis though. These 6 plugins help you identify and remove plugins with vulnerabilities fast:
Look-See Security Scanner: this plugin verifies the integrity of core WordPress plugins. Checks uploaded themes and plugins against WPScan vulnerabilities. [click to continue…]
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Continue ReadingIn the past few years, we have covered plenty of plugins and scripts that can protect your login page. This is one of the main pages hackers attack all the time. Changing its URL is one way to reduce the number of bot attacks against your site. Move Login lets you do just that. It lets you display an error message when people reach your old login page. [click to continue…]
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