It was Monday morning and I was on a call with a dozen others who are my peers. Each of us helps the small business owner with their businesses in one way or the other. It was at the end of the call and we were each sharing our websites and going over how to make little improvements here and there. Time was running out and there was just enough time for one more website review, I volunteered. As my site was coming up for all to see suddenly the screen turned a maroon red with an outline of a security officer with his hand stretched out and the words of"don't precede malware threat." I was horrified to remember exactly what it said although there was more. I was concerned that I had spent hours on being ruined plus humiliated the people on the telephone had seen me vulnerable.
Finally, fix malware problems free will even tell you that there is no htaccess from the wp-admin/ directory. You may put a.htaccess file if you desire, and you can use it to control access from IP address to the directory or address range. Details of how to do that are available on the internet.
No software system is resistant to vulnerabilities and bugs. Security holes will be discovered and guys will do their best to exploit them. Keeping your software up-to-date is a good way to stave off attacks, once security holes are this website found because their products will be fixed by software vendors that are reliable.
I don't think there is a person out there that after learning just how much of a problem WordPress hacking is that it is a fantastic idea. Something I've noticed over the years is that when it comes to securing their blogs, bloggers seem to be stuck in this state that is reactive.
Black and whitelists phrases based on which field they appear within, in a page request. (unknown/numeric parameters vs. known post bodies, comment bodies, etc.).
These are only some. Great thing is that they don't need much time to perform. These are also easy options, which can be done easily.