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Common Attacks on WordPress Sites 101: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Watching dominoes fall is always fun. And why wouldn’t it be? It’s a harmless, yet mesmerizing display of organized chaos. But if it did represent something harmful, there would be much reason to worry. Cross-site scripting attacks, at their worst, are the dominoes of common website vulnerabilities. Cross-site scripting, generally known as XSS, is a…
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Common Attacks on WordPress Sites 101: Backdoors
Removing malware from your website, and getting rid of hacks is a painstaking process. When you’re a website owner whose site has been hacked, your online reputation takes a hit. It’s only more distressing when you keep getting hacked. The reason behind this, most of the time, is a ‘backdoor’. Having a backdoor could be…
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Why WordPress Sites Get Hacked
Having your website hacked could be compared to having an annoying roommate sometimes. Everything’s a mess, no matter how many times you keep putting things back. Your shampoo, food and other resources are always running out. Thanks to them, shows you’ve never even heard of turn up in your ‘Continue Watching’ list on Netflix… And…
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Common attacks on WordPress sites: SQL Injection
If you started gaming in the early days of Sega, you’d probably be familiar with the The 1991 phrase: ‘All your base are belong to us’, from the game ‘Zero Wing’. The phrase became a meme very quickly, especially because of how funny the bad translation was, and yet how it was appropriate. Over the…
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Common Attacks to Protect your WordPress Site Against
Having your very own website used to be something reserved for developers once upon a time. All that changed with WordPress, and for the better.But it’s never over. Whether you run a small blog with a loyal following or a big e-commerce window, your website is an integral part of your life. It represents your…
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Tech Crunch Hacked by OurMine: Are Our Websites Safe at All?
As a lot of us following technology news might know by now, TechCrunch was hacked today, by OurMine. The message left by hackers was caught just before the post was taken down: According to OurMine’s website, the organisation is made of “professional hackers and vulnerability assessors” who “only care about the security and privacy of…
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WordPress Firewalls vs. Antiviruses
When you’re a WordPress blog or website owner, waking up to a bad case of malware mayhem is your worst nightmare, especially because of the devastating consequences to your brand. This is why it’s absolutely essential for anyone with a WordPress site to look into security and recovery options. One of the most common security…
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Limiting Access to WordPress Admin Directory using IP Address
In an earlier article, we spoke about password protecting wp-login.php with HTTP authentication. There, we came up with this amazing analogy that if your WordPress were a house, HTTP authentication would be a fence to it. Now, imagine deploying a guard at your fence door to further secure your house (your WordPress site). This guard…
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Password Protecting wp-login.php with HTTP Authentication
The WordPress admin dashboard can only be accessed by entering in your username and login password. It is good practice to use a strong login password at all times, as this makes it difficult for bots and hackers to break into your admin dashboard. However, the internet has never been a very safe place, and…
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Setting Up Two-factor Authentication for WordPress with Google Authenticator
You know how they say that insects develop resistance to insecticides over time? Well, that’s sort of how it’s become with passwords these days. Passwords have been used to secure user accounts for such a long time now that they’ve started to lose their effectiveness. Of late, more and more hack attacks have become successful….
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