It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"do not precede malware threat." I was too horrified to remember precisely what it said although there was more. I was concerned about my site I had spent hours on being ruined plus humiliated that the people on the call had seen me vulnerable.
Finally, installing the rename your login url to secure your wordpress website Scan plugin will check all this for you, and alert you to anything that you might have missed. It will also inform you that a user named"admin" exists. Of course, that is the administrative user name. If you wish you can follow a link and find directions for changing that title. I personally think that a strong password is good security, and since I followed those steps, there have been no attacks on the sites that I run.
Strong passwords - Do your best to use a password, alpha-numeric, with upper and lower case and special characters. Easy to remember passwords are also easy to guess!
There's a section of config-sample.php that's headed"Authentication Unique Keys." There are four definitions that appear within the block. There is a hyperlink inside that part of code. You want to enter that link into your browser, copy the contents that you get back, and then replace the keys you have with the unique, pseudo-random keys provided by the site. This makes it harder for attackers to automatically create a"logged-in" cookie for your site.
You can also get an SSL Encyption Security for your WordPress blogs. The SSL Security here are the findings makes secure and encrypted communications with your site. You may keep the all the cookies and history of communication so that all transactions are recorded. Be certain all your sites get SSL security for maximum protection.
However, I advise that you set up the Login LockDown plugin in place of any.htaccess controls. From being permitted after three unsuccessful login attempts from a certain IP address for an hour login requests will stop. You can get into your panel whilst away from your office, and yet you have great protection against hackers if you do so.