Website security is becoming more and more important. attacks are on the increase. And there are millions every single day. My own website, the one that's the subject of this case study is attacked hundreds of times a month. The attacks vary in intensity and style, but they're always a danger to unprotected site. Fortunately, it's quite easy for us to protect our sites against most of the common attacks.
Hackers trying to gain access to your site for a variety of reasons. An obvious one is to add text or banner links to your site, which redirect their own sites or offers. Thousands of sites are hacked a new tool DDoS or denial of service attacks on another site. These attacks operate by sending so much traffic to a website that the hosting server just can't cope and the site goes down. Someone with illegal files, such as pornographic images, may try to store them on your server to escape discovery. Some hackers simply like the challenge, they do it for thumb.
Whatever the reason, there are millions of attacks every year. And currently, there are almost 180,000 WordPress sites successfully hacked every year. So what are these attacks, the three main attacks accounted for almost 80% of all the attempts These are hosting server vulnerability, brute force attacks and plugin vulnerability. Make sure you use a well established hosting company. send them an email asking about their record. And what are the defenses against hacking.
Just by using a reputable host, your risk is reduced considerably. A brute force attack is when a bot attempts to guess your admin username and the password. As you can imagine, if you leave the username as the default, which is admin, and use a simple password, you will soon be hacked. As I said during the installation video, user and password should be random. Over 12 characters and mixed plugins you be kept to a minimum, and only choose ones that are actually supported and compatible with the latest version of your WordPress theme. Be sure to check your WordPress dashboard from time to time and update the theme and plugins whenever you're notified.
This is important as updates include fixes for vulnerabilities, just recently discovered. The security plugin that I use is called wordfence, which has a free and the pro plan if God's against brute force attacks, as well as many others, and even with the free plan, I've never been hacked.