WordPress Tutorials Security Hacking Issues

By Buddy U. McLellan

Blogger push their self to the limit in order to be best on the search engine industry. They post several new ideas, advices, and information over their blog to improve page ranking. But hackers are waiting for their chance to enter to your site to make necessary alterations on your blog to improve their site.

Spam Injection is one of the problems that Wordpress users face. It is a kind of software used by hackers to hide important keywords as well as improving their page rank. It mixes the decoded codes after embedding a database or server. However, Google Bot can help you to see these files during crawling. Detecting the problem is not easy to do. Most of them are embedded on a database level using Wordpress plug-ins or templates. Plug-ins makes Wordpress the center of Spam Injection attacks. However, it keeps the blog site more amazing than to its competitor.

Updating to the latest plug-in is not enough to avoid Spam Injection attack. Regularly change your password or choose a strong a password to avoid hacking of your site. Some of Wordpress users do not replace their default user name. You must delete your old Wordpress account prior to creating a new account. Then you will be given an option to transfer your previous post to your new account.

David Kierznowski of blogsecurity.net developed the "no-version plug-in." It's a latest plugin capable of hiding your Wordpress version number and replaces it with blanks. It's one way of preventing hackers to see which version you're using as well as manipulating your site. As a result, anybody who searches your blog will not be able to see the version of your wordpress blog. Most of the files in Wordpress begin with "wp." Hackers will have an easy access to your plug-ins if you are not aware of what they can do. You must rename your database files located at /wp-content/plugins to prevent hackers on controlling your site. You can as well avoid hackers if you will remove the index.html located at wp-content/plugins/ folder.

Bloggers must be aware that hackers are always around. You need to protect your site from the evil deeds made by hackers. Better start enhancing your site now, or else, you may become one of those unfortunate individuals affected by spam injection attack. - 30201

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