14 tips to WordPress practical security

WordPress is the most user friendly expandable blog platform around. "With power comes more responsibilities", says Spiderman’s uncle. So what if your valuable WordPress blog get hacked? You will be literally devastated, violated and humiliated. Now you need to know how a attacker or cracker hack or exploit your site.

* They know about your security weakness points about your site
* They know about the important directories are open and accessible
* They know about the version of WordPress has security issues
* They know what outdated unsecured plug-in you are using and they can take advantage of it
* They brute force attack your site login for random username and password
* They know WordPress uses "Admin" as the administrator name, so they keep generating passwords and keep trying

So how do you overcome these situations? Well, you just need tighten up the security principal to avoid these problems. These are very practical options to protect yourself from getting hacked. In truth, every protection can be broken but the point is not to cure but to prevent.

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