July 10, 2009

WordPress Security Do You Know How Safe Your Blog Is

People with Internet and web experience of all levels have worked to make sure that their websites, web service accounts and browsers were as safe as they could be from computer hackers. However, the hackers practice an old baseball saying which goes, “If you want to be a success you have to hit ‘em where they ain’t.”

The weakness discovered by the hackers is the WordPress Blog. Many believe that they will never be hacked, but as your blog gains popularity, the hackers will start searching for vulnerabilities.

The hacker attacks on WordPress Blogs take the person who wants to come to a particular blog to a different site that’s full of ads, many of them obscene and many of them virus filled, which obviously does not present what was the assumed landing point blog in the best light. In fact, if one hacker got through, even if the matter is resolved quickly, it can still damage all the work the owner has already done on the blog. If your blog is full of content from years of work, a hacker attack can turn all of that work into untrustworthly material.

The attacks launched on WordPress Blogs by hackers get even worse for the blog owners. Google, for example, when (not if) their robots detect something suspicious about a WordPress Blog will include the following in the search result for that WordPress Blog.

“This site may harm your computer.”

If a person clicks on that phrase, which appears as a link within the search result listing, they will be taken to a page that will repeat the warning of harm to their computer and suggest that they go to another site or blog that came up in their search results.

Even if a WordPress Blog owner catches the damage quickly, the time it will take to repair that blog's reputation will be costly at a variety of levels. People will remember the warnings of computer harm no matter how strongly it's presented that all with that WordPress Blog is well. If you lose your blog traffic, that means you lose your ad revenue as well. In many cases this could mean the loss of affiliate sales since many affiliate networks require a certain level of website traffic.

WordPress Blog owners mistakingly think that the warning signs that their blog has been hacked are so obvious that they will catch the problem before any major damage is done. They would have to take action and keep track of their Wordpress Blog every single minute. Even five minutes under the hacker's control can damage your connection with the thousands of blog readers visiting your site at the time.

Wordpress does its best to stay updated when it comes to security, but that is still just a reactive step for a WordPress blog owner. One proactive step on your WordPress Blog is all that is needed to prevent a hacker from destroying your work and reputation.

Internet developer and expert James Stein, who has 15 years experience in program development, is the creator of WordPress Secured. Instead of one plug-in fix after another, WordPress Secured brings total security to every WordPress Blog that anyone can learn and benefit from.

WordPress Secured takes you step by step and teaches you to plug the back doors on your WordPress blogs which hackers exploit. It can reveal a blog's softspots and make them stronger. Users discover how to protect their important avenues of ad revenue. WordPress Secure can make the average blog owner not only more safe but secure and aware of their blog as well.

WordPress Secure contains the added feature of BadBot Killer.BadBot-Killer stops those scanning bots that seek out a websites server weaknesses that are open to website hackers. BadBot-Killer is a script that will stop the hackers before they can locate a open hole in a website or blog.

WordPress blog owners don’t realize the time and knowledge that is required to repair a WordPress blog after it has been hacked. With WordPress Secure you will find one easy and educational package that will keep you steps ahead of any hacker.

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