You may well have heard all the buzz online about the attacks on WordPress security. Unfortunately this is no joke, and it needs to be taken very seriously, or all you've built could be hijacked or worse, lost to you.
I back my blogs regularly using a free plugin WP DB Backup up. If anything happens I can always restore my blog. I use my blog to be scanned by WP Security Scan plugin that is free and suspicious-looking requests to be blocked by WordPress Firewall to fix malware problems free.
It is not uncommon for sites to suddenly be hacked by some random person today. In fact, even whole domains get hacked. If you are not a programmer or a programmer, there's absolutely not any way that you will understand anything about codes or programming languages. This is the reason why some of the men and women who website here don't know anything about codes end up thinking if there are some methods.
1 thing you can take is to delete the default administrator account. This is critical because if you do not do it, a user name which they could try to crack is already known by malicious user.
Install the WordPress Firewall Plugin. Stop and this plugin investigates web requests with WordPress-specific heuristics have a peek at this website that are simple to recognize attacks that are most obvious.
There are always going to be risks being online (or even just being alive!) Also it's easy to get caught up in the fear. We put the breaks on, when we get caught up in the fear. This isn't a fantastic reaction. Take some common sense precautions, then forge ahead. It is going to have to be addressed then, if something does happen and no amount of quaking in your will have helped. All is good, if nothing does and you haven't made yourself sick.