Have you thought about hackers?

This week, I realized that I had never asked this question yet unavoidable when editing a website. I am not asked this question by chance, discovered that the excellent (and new) blog d 'Arnaud Legendre hacker had done that I questioned the safety of my blog.

Above all, I want to stress that it is very rare to get hack your blog. Unless you are world famous (regarding 0.1% of French blogs ). Therefore, if your blog is hacked, the head looking around you. It is also possible to get by Turkish hacker left his store. If so I assure you, it happened to the blog Wordpress-tuto.

Arnaud had not counted on Backup of the host (1and1) to provide one. Like most hosts, the first prize shared hosting (Personal Pack original) does not include backups ... So remember to do regular backups or take a host that offers this service. There is a great Wordpress plugin to make automatic backups of your database. Also note that it is not enough to save the database, consider having a copy of the file wp-content (for wordpress).

How to protect against hackers?

Most of you neglect the safety of their blog: CHMOD neglected, plugins little secure and password too simple are the main weaknesses used by hackers.

The first thing to do is to properly configure access rights to your files. Do not give up the rights to write to a file (only the owner has the right to require the writing of most of the time), choose the value 755 for the CHMOD your folders.

The second thing you can monitor to secure your blog is the vulnerability of your plugins. For this, there is a great service: Wordpress Scanner. You will share vulnerability checker plugins (but the template can contain faults) that you use and the other track faults discovered on various Wordpress plugins.

The last thing that will ensure good security is to add a password to important files from your blog, wp-admin for example. For this you can use a file. Htaccess to limit access to an IP address or request a password (optional). example: http://www.curiousromain.com/wp-admin
There are generators. Htaccess or many tutorials to help you build one. Some hosts can create one from the control panel of your hosting.

It is also recommended to regularly update your Wordpress.

You are ready to deal with hackers and other malicious people

Source: Business Garden