Archive for security
Easy improvements for the non-technical:
are you displaying your username for all the hackers to see? Go to your wordpress profile page and change the “display name publicly as” to something other than your username. Trying using a nickname if your first or last name is too similar to your username.
is your password strong? use [...]
Wordpress is now so popular that hackers are targeting wordpress websites. Some sites we look after were hacked by the “brute force approach” – ie: programmatically trying usernames and passwords until they can login.
Types of hacks:
Luckily we do various checks which enabled us to pick up the following:
header.php hacked – hidden links showed up [...]
