When his blog was attacked by hackers, Matt Garrett decided to never let that happen again. So he developed BlogDefender software that keeps hackers away by sending a site into nearly invisible mode. Once BlogDefender is through adjusting your site’s settings, botnets and hackers are thwarted when they try to find the cracks in your WordPress security. The cracks have been sealed. By default, WordPress is very “chatty”. It tells a visitor many details about your installation, details that hackers can use to worm their way into your control center, where they can damage your site... [...]

WP Brute Force is a simple plugin that installs on your WordPress site, to completely hide your WordPress installation from hackers. When you create a WordPress site, our critical operational files are placed in pre-defined directories, the same directories they are placed in on millions of other WordPress sites. The crooks know where to find them, so they can corrupt them and take over your site. But, if you know what you’re doing, you can place these WP files in different directories and still operate your site correctly. Your system can find the, but crooks cannot, so they move on to a... [...]