Introduction
The Internet is a collection of websites located throughout the world. These websites use various forms of CMS, most obviously the Wordpress. It is a widely used CMS and hence more prone to hacking attempts. We are a group of WordPress experts aiming to provide awareness on various kinds of attacks.
WordPress security starts the moment you sign into your WordPress site to administer it. Check the domain name you are signing into. A common tactic that hackers use is they will send you an email containing a link to use to sign in to a service. The service may appear to be your own WordPress site, but in fact it is their malicious website.
Hacking statistics.
Use of the WordPress CMS platform accounts for more than 25% of websites worldwide. It’s this figure alone that makes WordPress such a popular target for hackers. Quite simply, there are lots of potential victims to pick from.
The popularity of WordPress has also resulted in an ecosystem that contains over 42,000 plugins — with each one having the potential to open up additional vulnerabilities. And we haven’t even factored in the plugins that are not available from within the WordPress repository.
43% of Wordpress attacks are aimed at small businesses sites. Every day 230,000 samples of malware are produced. A Clark School study at the University of Maryland revealed that there is a cyber-attack after every 39 seconds. The businesses have to pay a considerable cost for hacking and other cyber-crimes. A Juniper Research study has estimated that cyber crimes will cost businesses $2 trillion in 2019.
Hearing these statistics might give you the impression that WordPress is an inherently insecure platform. But your impression would be incorrect. WordPress is actually quite secure. The team at WP Hacked Help takes security very seriously and have a well-defined process for managing potential vulnerabilities.
Why do hackers hack websites?
There are too many ulterior motives of hackers, who hack websites for many nefarious purposes. Some of these are as follows:
- To render a website useless or shut it down.
- To digitally steal your money, especially through banking Trojans and malicious lines of codes.
- Politically driven defacing of rivals websites. i.e., defacing a website belonging to a contestant in some election.
- Purely mischievous fun. e.g., school’s own students, attacking its website
- To exploit your identity for their own benefits. e.g., using your credit card by gaining access to login information or pins.
Signs of a hacked website.
If any of the following sign appears on your site/web page it is an indication that site has been hacked.
- Your website is redirected to another URL that in most cases is a pornographic website.
- A google alert appearing on the website which informs that the site has been hacked.
- Strange looking JavaScript appears in the source code of the site.
- You find new admin, database and FTP users which were not created by you.
- Spam advertisements and pop-ups on the website due to malicious codes.
- The site is no more accessible by Google.
- Your website has been defaced.
- Your browsers, Google Chrome or Firefox, give a warning that site is compromised.
Let’s now check out some of the remedial measures that can help you recover your website.
This course will you an introduction to WordPress security as a site administrator or WordPress publisher. We have discussed several common pitfalls that confront WordPress administrators in our official blog, We have also discussed comment spam, avoiding malicious code and how to remove malware from your wordpress site easily..
You will gain introductory knowledge of how to secure a WordPress website. We encourage you to read the series of WordPress security articles and this WordPress security Guide at open.edu, will introduce you to intermediate and advanced concepts related to securing your WordPress website.
Downloads
You can download these files for use offline or on a mobile device.The materials provided for offline use for your convenience and are not tracked. If you wish to save your progress, please go through the online version.
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General
This course will give you an introduction to WordPress security as a site administrator or WordPress publisher. We have discussed several common pitfalls, common wordpress errors and various hacks that confront WordPress administrators in our official blog, We have also discussed japanese keywords hack, pharma hacks, DDOS attacks, wordpress malware redirect (site redirects to another spam site) SQL Injections & Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
You will gain introductory knowledge of how to secure a WordPress website. We encourage you to read the series of WordPress security articles and this WordPress security Guide checklist, which will introduce you to intermediate and advanced concepts related to securing your WordPress website.
Downloads
You can download these files for use offline or on a mobile device.The materials provided for offline use for your convenience and are not tracked. If you wish to save your progress, please go through the online version.