Today, WordPress has become a common goal for hacker attacks. Just during this year, over websites and sites, working by WordPress have been hijacked. In 2014 this figure will probably grow. If WordPress is thought of as a very safe platform, why is this happening? Let us determine, whether your WP installation will be the next target for hackers and take a look at the data.
Learn from others’ mistakes!
41% of sites were hacked through the fault of hosting providers. This means that an attacker has used the vulnerability of hosting in his pursuits or used security gap at hosting provider to hack WordPress blogs, located on a host.
29% of sites were hacked because of WordPress themes vulnerability. To put it differently, a hacker has identified theme’s weaknesses, installed on WP and using it, reached his target – obtained access.
22% of sites were hacked due to the vulnerability of plug-ins, installed on WordPress.
Web pages were hijacked, because of the weak password to the panel.
What happens during a hacker attack?
If an attacker was able to gain access he will probably use the following list of techniques to hide his tracks for a little longer, and remain there:
- Creating a new account with administrator privileges;
- Resetting passwords to stop users entering your own WP website;
- Changing the role of the inactive account;
- Injecting code
- Modifying WordPress files, to regain access to the system through malicious code (like a backdoor);
- Creating redirects in .htaccess files.
The way to protect WordPress from hacker attacks?
As you can see, to hack WordPress website is very simple, but there is also good news – you can protect yourself. Examining the facts and looking back, you can understand what to do, to raise the level of protection from hackers for your site:
- Before you change or select suppliers, it makes sense to collect some information about the web hosting provider: posts, blogs and browse forums.
- make sure and study them they are updated products Before installing a theme or plugin.
- Delete or rename the administrator account by default.
- Use a password that is strong. Under a password, I suggest a password that is not a nickname of your puppy and contains at least eight characters, which do not form any word. The password must contain uppercase and lowercase, numbers, and special characters such as! , &,?
- plugins and other software current and always use fresh patches to protect your software.
- If you apply the tips, the security of your WordPress will increase, and it will be protected from the attacks.
Don’t stop! Keep further your WordPress theme security level!
You can’t take steps stop at this, because the safety of a site is necessary to deal with constantly and to improve WordPress security. The measures that you are taking and will take in the future will affect the security of your site with no doubts and may influence. But do not immediately become discouraged and think since there is nothing complicated in this process that today you need to suffer attempting to secure your page.