If you’ve been following up tech news recently, you must hear about “Heartbleed” security vulnerability already. Million websites has been marked as vulnerable to the attack and as security expert Bruce Schneier said in his blog “On the scale of 1 to 10, this is an 11”.
Heartbleed is a catastrophic bug in OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 Beta, a serious security vulnerability in the Internet history.
Today we will be taking a look at what steps you can take should you discover your WordPress site is undergoing a security attack, as well as how you can start the recovery process to bring your site back online and restore its content.
While no one who has suffered from forced downtime, or had their site hacked wants to hear that it could have been prevented, or at least had the effects mitigated with a few free plugins, we will also take this opportunity to highlight a few key steps that can be taken to prevent such an attack succeeding in the future.
Along with content building and SEO practices for your WordPress site, security is another important factor that needs to be addressed at an early stage. You can never tell when your website would be hacked or suffer from malware infection. Yeah, we all know how terrible it would be. So why not buckle down to implement strict security methods right away to save your site, our sites from constant dangerous attacks. In this article, I am going to share with you some tips & tricks on how to harden security in WordPress.