{"id":26089,"date":"2016-05-03T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=26089"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:14:00","slug":"28-ways-to-secure-wordpress-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/03\/28-ways-to-secure-wordpress-website\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Ways to Secure WordPress Website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

28 Ways to Secure WordPress Website<\/a> covers, as the title says, quite a few ways to make your WordPress website more secure. \u00a0There is no absolute security, and there are always more that you can do, but this is a good start. \u00a0Apart from all the useful advice, the article also tells you why you should care:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would anyone hack my site?\u201d \u2013 you ask<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be clear. Your site is likely not special. Unless your firm\u2019s\u00a0name is CNN.<\/p>\n

The fact is that most \u2013 or the great majority<\/a>, rather \u2013 of attacks are automated. This means that various bots (pieces of software) developed by hackers crawl the web and look for vulnerable sites.<\/p>\n

Then if they\u2019re successful, the site gets added to the hacker\u2019s portfolio, so to speak, and can be used for various purposes.<\/p>\n

In other words, your site by itself is<\/em> no special, but 10,000 sites just like yours is pure gold for a hacker. Such a network of hacked sites can be used for things like black hat SEO, mass email sending, database scraping (to get your users\u2019 personal info), and so on.<\/p>\n

You really shouldn\u2019t feel overly safe just because\/if you run a relatively small website.<\/p>\n

Hackers don\u2019t discriminate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

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