These are scary and they are real threats to your site: • Hackers • Botnets • Malware • Code Injections • SQL or XSS attacks. Technology experts are warning us about the risks to our site integrity and even survival if the bad guys get into our site’s back office. And unfortunately, WordPress (and the many plugins and themes we add to it) are particularly at risk. If you have a WordPress site, you need to be aware of the potential for hackers to use inherent weaknesses in poorly written add-ins and in WordPress, itself, to infiltrate your site. You need to take explicit... [...]

Crooks and hackers are everywhere, it seems. One of our servers was attacked Monday. Fortunately, we were protected, and no harm was done. Are you protected? WordPress sites are especially vulnerable, and you need to take extra precautions to assure that no one can penetrate your defenses. There are several good security tools for WordPress, but one stands out: WP Site Guardian, which is brand new. The creators experimented with the other leading security tools to see whether they were up to the challenge of the exploits of current hackers. They found that even with the most popular security tools,... [...]

Many WordPress sites fall to hackers everyday. Yours could be next unless you protect it. There are two ways people try: 1. Frequent backups that you can use to restore your site if it is ever attacked. This can work, but it’s expensive and time-consuming. 2. Software that closes the gaps in native security for WordPress so that no hacker can get through. Joshua Zamora and Radu Hahaianu have just released software that will lock down your site and will also create and restore backups, in case a future version of WordPress ever opens loop-holes that bypass cureent lock-down methods. They... [...]