Prevent hacking of your blog.
Like all of our posts this one, on preventing your blog from being hacked, was generated from our circle of friends and clients.
Several of our bloggy friends have had their blogs hacked at some time in the not-too-distant past.
Realizing we probably didn’t know enough about preventing it, we decided this was a great opportunity to not only educate ourselves on avoiding the horrors of a hacked blog, but to also educate our reader(s). <— our attempt at humor. We really hope there is more than one of you out there.
Here are a few very simple tips we picked up in our research:
1. Spammers can insert code via comments. Along with the wonderful spam catcher Askimet, install Conditional CAPTCHA. This adds a CAPTCHA window only for those comments Askimet labels spam. The potential spammer must then enter the CAPTCHA code to have their comment go forward to the Askimet spam queue. Best of all, your regular, non-spammy commenters won’t even see the CAPTCHA screen. We’ve only had it in place for a couple days on all of our blogs and it is fantastic! No more having to dump hundreds of spam comments!
2. Hide your WP version. Hackers often need to know which WP version you’re using in order to hack it. This used to be visible in the footer. We’ve just checked and either the latest version of WP, or the themes we’ve chosen, are aware of this security flaw and have removed this information from the footer. It may also be in your blog’s header.php template tag. Remove the meta tag named “generator”, which states which version you’re using. Continue reading Seven Ways to Prevent Those Bloggin Hackers
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