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WordPress Security through Obscurity – How effective is it?
Security through obscurity is the most commonly used strategy to protect our WordPress sites from attacks. It is based on the belief that a system is secure as long as outsiders can’t find out details about its internal mechanism. Security through obscurity is achieved by hiding the important parts like login and admin pages, admin…
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The role of Email Alerts in Login Security
Login attacks form the bulk of brute force attacks on WordPress sites. So it’s no surprise that all the security plugins lay special focus on login security. It includes features like limited login attempts, lockout period, customized error messages and lastly, email alerts. An email alert is generated to notify you every time a user…
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Does your WordPress Security Plugin really secure your site?
As WordPress site owners, securing our data is a top concern. We want to do everything in our capacity to protect our site, its visitors and our customers against any harm. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try attacks still happen. Blame it on WordPress’ ever growing popularity! The number is only set to rise…
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Does your WordPress Security Plugin really secure your site?
As WordPress site owners, securing our data is a top concern. We want to do everything in our capacity to protect our site, its visitors and our customers against any harm. Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try attacks still happen. Blame it on WordPress’ ever growing popularity! The number is only set to rise…
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Custom Contact Forms Vulnerability – Are you up to date?
The security team at Sucuri recently discovered a vulnerability in the Custom Contact Forms plugin. The popular plugin with over a 6,00,000 downloads is widely used to customize contact forms. The vulnerability allows attackers to take control of your website, bypassing all authentication methods. If you have this plugin installed on your site with a…
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WordPress Security Release 3.9.2 – Is your site up-to-date?
Researchers recently uncovered a major XML vulnerability in WordPress that can take your website down. While most WordPress security issues in the past few years have revolved around issues in plugins and themes, this one lies at the core. The vulnerability is a classic case of the ever-popular denial of service (DoS) attack. In this…
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Does your WordPress backup plugin report vulnerabilities?
We do. At blogVault, we believe that our job isn’t just about backups. Our customers put their faith in us for providing the best protection for their data. In return, we do everything to keep them happy and their sites safe. That includes keeping ourselves up-to-date with the latest from the WordPress world. The recent…
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WordPress Backup and Restore
WordPress Backup and Restore form the two pillars of your site protection strategy. With WordPress’s growing popularity, the attacks are ever on the rise. Evil lurks around every corner, literally. From server failures to hacker attacks, there are many things that can cost you your data. Yes, the data that took you years to build. It…
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Exploring wooCommerce customer registrations for your site
“Customer is king!” they say, and rightly so. The main purpose of setting up an eCommerce store is to make your products accessible to the users. Every store owner constantly strives to enhance the end user experience and create on-going relationships with the customers. Maintaining a customer information database plays a crucial part in achieving…
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wooCommerce Shipping Demystified
Shipping is one of the key aspects of any eCommerce store. Even while setting up your wooCommerce store, it is very important to have the right shipping strategy in place. In our earlier tutorial Getting Started with wooCommerce we learnt how to setup a complete eCommerce store using the wooCommerce plugin. With this tutorial, we…
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