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Security - Is your Wordpress site being Hacked?

by Chris Deadman Marketing
I am on total melt down after attending the TateBurns.com conference event again tonight. There have been some great speakers that I will list at the end of this post for anyone Interested
So far I have asked many questions on different subjects on these calls.
But here is one question for you?
"Who really knows about how secure a self hosted Wordpress site really is?"  Well let me tell you Regina Smola totally blew me away with how many different ways the hackers can steal your stuff without the proper precautions in place.
With the changing world of the Internet everyone is moving on to the next and newest levels, for instance if you already knew that WordPress will be launching, Wordpress 3.1 Scheduled for December 2010 You might not know that there are several ways to make sure that the Install will be Safe from hackers. This is Regina Smola's Site: WP Security Lock Is Here!

I own Self Hosted Wordpress sites and I found myself going straight there after learning how many avenues a hacker can go down to infiltrate your Passwords, Codes, Digital Content, Pictures, MP3′s Etc? The list goes on; I certainly believe that good security anywhere online is paramount if you care about your Information in this age of Identity theft. Only Yesterday I got a call from my bank offering security for my information, that's how real it all is, if technology has provided assistance to these openings in our privacy there are more and more ways to combat it.
Make some time to find out about this one it really is an eye opener, Regina will answer all queries about Wordpress associated products that are relevant and guide you toward Plugins that can protect and secure your sites Integrity.

Hey, Even I thought that the precautions I made were good enough! But even your hosting sites are targeted by hackers. Tonight I learned the best practices when backing up your sites Information too.
There is so much more to learn, if you really want to know the steps I plan to take to secure my Wordpress sites look at this page: WP Security Lock from Regina Smola
You will be as shocked as I was to find just how open ended you really are online.
I hope that this was as useful to you as it is to me, I care about helping others online and this information just had to be shared with you!


Here is the List I mentioned in the beginning. The conference is going on right now on a nightly schedule  early morning if you are in the UK like me and consists of experts from the Internet marketing industry.   Sadly this time the seats are taken now but I can keep you updated through my posts.

Mastermind Teleseminar Speakers Already Featured:


  • Mark Hendricks - How To Create Your Business Success Strategy
  • Cindy Dawson - How To Create Your Own CD or DVD Empire
  • Dan Morris - How To Create Your $10,000 Ladder
  • Chris Lockwood - Discover The Best Niche For Ultimate Success
  • Tate Burns - Membership Models, Software And Strategies
  • Joe Marsh - Press Release Creation And Distribution Strategies
  • Doug Hudiburg - Leverage The Power Of Twitter Automation & Major Components Of An Online Selling System
  • David Perdew - Ideas Faster To The Marketplace With Outsourcing
  • Regina Smola - Creating And Implementing Wordpress Security


Mastermind Teleseminar Speakers Yet To Come:


  • Anita Johnson - Customer Support Strategies Can Make You Money
  • Pauline Wallin - The Right Way To Market To Professionals
  • Kevin -Mr. EBay - Johnson ? What You Can Sell On EBay NOW
  • Tate Burns - BONUS Q&A From the events MC


Duration of the event November 1st to 19th 1 hour nightly sessions excluding weekends.
Find Out more about these subjects and more at; TateBurns.com
If you never made it to this Event stay up to date for future seminars and gain access to good Information helping marketers make good choices for online businesses.


Thanks for reading & Good luck with your own business.


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Comments

Andy Anderson Professional   Owner Yuma Bloggers
I've read their 7 plugins manual and all together have like 9 plugins to handle security. 3.0.1 has been the slowest so far to have major issues but as with anything open source, the hackers get the truck as developers and tend to have initial hacks come out the same day as the new version. Security solutions are available free but the best ones will cost you a few bucks but the piece of mind will save you an ulcer.

While tire kicking on tools to buy be sure to put up WP-Firewall and WP-Security and WP-Antivirus. Look into encryption software as well and make sure you use custom prefixes on you database tables, it's vital.

Thanks for the great read and awesome resource my friend, discovered it from your link at Kooiii.

Andy
Nov 18th 2010 14:02   
Chris Deadman Senior   Marketing
Thanks Andy I thought that a lot of people would benefit from this Info everywhere Including my friends at Kooiii. Good security is vital and one good piece of advice for new Installs of wordpress is always change the Admin default User. as you know Wordpress create all new sites with admin as user. this leaves a big loop hole for hackers if your password is only small, there is software out there that can figure short passwords. it is recommended that at least a 15 character and number combination is used for logins. thanks again for the comment.

Chris
Nov 18th 2010 14:51   
Andy Anderson Professional   Owner Yuma Bloggers
That's the nice thing on 3.0.1 is finally instead of a hard change you choose username on installation. I think that alone has been a major part of it being one of the most secure Wordpress releases yet. We search by WP for both blog and site design, to duplicate the features and expandability you would spend an easy $35,000 with your own coders and designers. Many companies have spent way more than that for far less than Wordpress offers so keeping it secure is a drop in the bucket for the savings you will find using WP.
Nov 18th 2010 14:56   
Uiytese Aryajsey Junior  
this leaves a big loop hole for hackers if your password is only small, there is software out there that can figure short passwords. it is recommended that at least a 15 character and number combination is used for logins. thanks again for the comment.
Apr 30th 2011 03:09   
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