Today, you may be inviting them in with a poor choice of themes and plugins (many free ones have malware, spyware and hidden code in them. When you use those that do, your site becomes a playground for the writers of those free resources. They can read your data and use it for their own purposes. Even worse, WordPress is a standardized platform that many crooks have studied and have produced code to attack. If you use a standard WP installation, you leave your site open to the attacks from these crooks. Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos hired WordPress security expert Bill Davis to produce WP SecurePro,... [...]