Wordpress Security

WordPress Website Security Steps

Protect your WordPress website in 10 simple steps.

Recently we encountered a situation where one of our client’s website was compromised. The website is a WordPress website with third party plugins installed as per the sites requirement. The hack was noticed when we checked the LFD alerts of AUTHRELAY and found spamming was being initiated from the server. We were quick to notice the alerts generated for the website and then started our investigation. Upon investigation we tried to login into WordPress admin area, but were unable to [...]

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10 Security Tips for WordPress Sites & Plugins

If you want your website application to just about do anything that is possible, you will have to use plugins and extensions. They are tools that extend the capabilities of any application. From backing up your content automatically at regular time intervals, they can even help to connect your website to different social platforms. Though extensions and plugins have very useful features, it becomes vital to think of the website’s security when using these facilities. If any of these plugins [...]

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How to protect WordPress login against Brute Force attack for customers on Linux Plesk VPS ?

Plesk is a well-known web solution for the operation of the control panel which is gradually becoming the preferred option for the organisations hosted by a web server. It provides distinctive features to the webmasters so that taking care of any websites comes out to be at ease. The configuration and application are simplified in execution which in turn fetches the host providers to carry on the virtual dedicated hosts to operate on a single machine with not many [...]

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Security concerns of 2FA for WordPress Site

2-factor authentication can also be denoted as 2FA.To provide an extra layer of security also known as multi-level authentication is done that not only requires a username and password but also one more piece of security which only a user can be bounded to possess. In simple words, it is a two-step verification in which the user has to provide information with respect to who they are so that the reliability is granted. The dependency is of two types of [...]

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