The Top 10 Things To Do If Your Blog Has Suffered A Cyber Breach

The Top 10 Things To Do If Your Blog Has Suffered A Cyber Breach

You build a blog, put careful effort into designing it either from scratch or through a CMS like WordPress, fill it with excellent content and take care to contract high quality hosting servers; then, one day you visit your main URL and find your browser warning you that it’s being directed to a high risk website, or maybe you type in your URL and nothing appears, just an error page! Or, maybe you even visit your pages and find yourself getting redirected to some other page offering things like gambling pages, or other unwanted pages. That’s how quickly hack attacks can happen, and the result can be deeply shocking if you hadn’t been expecting it for any reason.

Whatever the case may be, don’t go flying into a blind panic just yet. There are solutions that can at least help you recover control of your domain, and maybe, with a bit of luck, you might even be able to get all your data back.

Let’s cover the essential steps to dealing with a blog hack after it’s happened and maybe even coming out of the situation in good shape with everything recovered.

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5 Tips to Protect Your WordPress Login

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There is a lot of information about how you can keep your WordPress blog secure and safe from hackers. Such tips involve keeping your WordPress veresion and plugins updated, as well as backing up all your blog files and database.

From a slightly different perspective, you may also want to take steps to ensure you protect your WordPress login to ensure any unauthorized visitor can gain access to your entire blog. There are several things you can do to help keep the login secure, all that I have done on my blog as well.

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7 Best Ways to Secure Your Site from Attacks

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Ever since, I started using WordPress, I have found nothing that compares to this great content management system. This is because WordPress is versatile, and as such any person can be able to adapt it for use in any manner.

However, this was not always the case. When I first heard of WordPress, around six years ago, I simply dismissed it as one of those fads that come and go in a blink of an eye. But, I was wrong, and quite honestly, it was one of my mistakes, since I came on to later learn that WordPress was simply more than just a fad.

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