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WordPress, earlier this year, experienced a huge string of brute force attacks on WordPress users at their sites. A brute force attack is a cryptanalytic attack that is performed on your website relentlessly to gain control of your web space in a very unethical way. The attackers used an oversized network of compromised computers, also called as botneck, to repetitively guess passwords on such sites to gain access and then integrate all websites into a brand new website. Though the attack on most sites was very harmless and didn’t cause any damage but yet it has cast the seeds of doubts in users’ minds that the attack might return and next time, probably, on an even larger scale. Those websites who have taken the extra bit of caution were fine but yet there were repercussions; mainly on servers who used to host several WordPress sites as sudden logging in from thousand of user at a time put a lot of strain on them. The attacks could have been avoided; having said that, there were some lessons learnt from those attacks. Some learning lessons learn from recent WordPress Attack is as follows: Relinquish yourself off the “admin” username: attackers use the naivety of user who still uses admin as their username; once attackers are sure that a certain person use admin as their username then all they have to do is to guess their passwords and break in to their sites. So one thing that you must do is to change your username to something distinctive, one that cannot be guessed easily as username works as your first line of defence. Also, set passwords which contain characters, alphabets and numerals to make it a strong and unbreakable one. Good hosting: many WordPress Users back off when they have to spend too much on good hosting services. Cheap hosting services might save you a few bucks but they are not ready and competent in case of a traffic hike or a brute force attack. You never know when the next attack might happen therefore be prepared and spend your money on good hosting services whose server can handle sudden rise in traffic easily and not break down. Try using a quality CDN: Content Delivery Network (CDN) is used to filter and mitigate threats posed by dangerous bots; start pondering over availing services of CDNs such as Cloudfare and Distil if you have not yet availed any of CDNs. WordPress is safe: to be very honest, WordPress might have security vulnerability or two but otherwise it is very secure. Attackers didn’t attack on core of WordPress rather they attacked on different doors (sites) and hoped to find one unlocked (vulnerable). If it wasn’t secure, the attack could have caused mayhem on the virtual world, which obviously didn’t happen thus strengthening the fact the WordPress itself is quite secure. However, you can install different security plug-ins to make your website even more secure than it actually is. Those attacks were quite an eye opener for WordPress users and they have to keep in mind the lessons learnt from the attacks and remain wary of the fact that even more powerful attacks are quite imminent in near future. This Article is being submitted on behalf of Kumbaya Services pvt Ltd India's top SEO Company provides Seo Services, PPC Services and website development and website designing. Our team is lead by SEO Consultant having 9+ Yrs exp in SEO of all types of Websites
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