In the world today,website are now built based on open
source websites scripts all over the world which we are in. Programmers and
non-programmers alike make use of open source script to help make their work
easier and faster then they integrate their ingenuity into the already existing
technology.Now with this comes the problem of insecurity which has always been
a problem,in the I.C.T. industry and would continue to be a problem because as
technology increases, so does more security loopholes and vulnerabilities
unfold themselves.One of this most widely used open source scripts especially
for building blogs as presently over 30,000 to 60,000 blogs on the internet are
run by this engine known as “Wordpress”.Do you have a wordpress site? Are you a
developer of websites whom uses wordpress and wish to make your sites more
difficult to hack? Then this post is for you. Below are a list of wordpress
security plugins that can help make your wordpress websites more difficult to
hack.
1)
Wp-Login-2: This is used to protect the admin
backend of your website.It takes note of the i.p used continually by you the
admin to login too the website to administer it.When someone tries to access
the admin backend from a different ip address, it sends a verification email to
your administrative email address so the user can click it and if he can not
verify the email address,his Ip address is Banned.
2)
Semi-secure Login Re-imagined: It does the job
of automatically encrypting your login information as you send it over a
network to help stop an attacker from being able to successfully steal your
details because the data is encrypted, for him to steal it, he must first
decrypt it and he can not because he has no access to to the encryption/decryption
algorithm.
3)
Login Security solution: It enforces password
strength and after a period of time,it forces you to change your password and
it also logs you out automatically after a period of time.
4)
Wordpress- Firewall- 2: It seats in the
background and it inspects all incoming traffic and monitors if anyone tries to
play a few tricks on your wordpress blog like e.g Injecting sql queries into
your website or including malicious files such as shell scripts,c99,r99 and the
like into your website.
5)
Block-Bad-Queries: It helps to extend firewall
and helps to filter incoming traffic by stopping well known hackers and hacking
activities from being able to get into your website.
6)
Wordpress File Monitor Plus: It helps to notify
you by sending you an email by watching your files for changes and this is
because,hackers usually when they get in to your website successfully, they
like to upload their own custom already premade scripts to your website folder.
7)
Wp-Security-Scan:it helps to make sure that
wordpress file and folder permissions are set to how they should as there are
certain wordpress files and folders that should not be accessible publicly
through your website’s url e.g your php include() files.
8)
Update Notifications: It acts as a secret
security man that does the work of checking if any of your plugins require an
update or your themes or even wordpress itself and it sends you an email
notification to alert you of these kind of updates.
9)
Word-Fence: It helps to scan wordpress websites
for the following malware,phishing,backdoors,trapdoors and various forms of
virus infections you can think about.
10)
Sucuri-Wordpress-security-plugin: It combines
the job of wordpress –firewall-2 and word fence by making sure to block hackers
from entering your website and cleaning up infected files from your folders
such as shells,corrupt files,Trojan horses and even worms.
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