Perfect BloggersTech was started in late 2004 as a non profit web diary and it was continue till 2006 as non profit .But When had resigned from my official job then restart it as profitable venture and trying to invest full time on it .It was gaining a lots of traffic on those days due there were only a few professional bloggers on those days.one and half year it was fine and giving gold eggs for me but mid July-2008 it had come under attack of a few bad peoples those are claims website researchers (?) and whole database and contents were deleted from the server .That was the first time Perfect BloggersTech was the victim of jealousy and the bad people had transfared the domain Hosmoster to other register because hosting and domain as in same provider.Almost five years has gone and there is no other attack on Perfect BloggersTech till yesterday [5th February 2013 ] but Today it is again become victim of jealousy and deleted all the database from server along with other 2 websites from the server.But this time they have not taken more advantages because maximum files and folders are taken backup in local HDD.Here is the query comes that why my site9s0 come under their attack and when they attack ?
The reply is very simple as popularity of blog(s) is the main reason behind it and another most effective factor is careless ness of the blogger or owner.WordPress security expert Robert Abela has said in a interview ” If you have a website than it is very important to keep it secure from viruses, spyware, Trojans and any other form of malicious code from your site.How you popular or not that is not matter but your site may become a sample of their works or testing object(s).”
It is known to all that WordPress is very much secure by itself, but there is never too much ascertainable as uncountable ‘numero uno’ priority for any blogger or web developer should be security. Due to the lack of security, any site can be hacked and altered, private information can be stolen, and countless hours of hard work can be messed up with in few minutes of such culprits.Why my site is compromised or hacked today ?
As per my analysis says a few points-
B.I have shown WordPress version in publicly .
C.I have used default user name in Admin panel
D. My WordPress-related cookies were not encrypted.
E.My password was so weak.
F. My WordPress database table was in default settings.
G. Robot txt file was out dated .
H. Admin connection was not secured (https://).
I. I thought that no one hack my site.
J. I was in over confidence as I can handle any situation.
So after this compromise situation I have researched on this matter once again and collected 25 nos of most essential security plugin for bloggers those are in self hosted WordPress platform.If you too interested in learning more about WordPress security then must check all the 25 security plugin for WordPress blog.Just check out Unauthorized compromising a site or blog and WP security plugin.
5. Admin SSL
6. WP-DB-Backup
10. WordPress 1 Click EZ Backup
11. myEASYbackup
12. Blackhole
14. Secure WordPress
15. AskApache Password Protect
17. Secure Files
19. Login Lock Down
22. WP-DBManager
This plugin list will not safe your blog or site from those culprits if the webmaster or blogger is not conscious about their blog security alert.So must check the security measure daily basis.
Conclusion :-
Unauthorized compromising a site or blog with the unidenfied bloody researchers can destroy you hard works with in few seconds.Special thanks to Syed Balkhi ,Atish Ranjan and Purbita Ditecha for their real time assistance in recovery process.
Hi, this is a comment.
How you feel after losing whole works with……
nice your site thanks for sharing love you all time good work keep it up
So we have done this…. he he he he
I pay a visit every day some web sites and blogs to read posts,
except this blog gives feature based articles.
Feeling Very bad to know this Main..I dont understand what people get from this type of activities..But we can’t expect good things from moron..better to protect ourselves.
It is so sad news sir .It is better to recheck your security measures .
Thanks for sharing this measures. Thanks again
Hi Main,
Glad you recovered your blog and be happy that it taught another good lesson. Thanks for sharing your experience, it is truly worthy for bloggers to tighten their own security.
Until the accident, we tend to believe that nobody will hack our blog. We really can’t find the reason anybody should have bad eye upon our blog.
Now Main, do you suggest to use all these plugin to a blog? That’s really a huge list for any blog. I’d appreciate if you share the plugin set after you fixed up the problem.
Getting regular back up is very crucial.
Main Uddin taking regular backups of your blog is very essential otherwise such incidents can happen every now a then.
This is one of those things that I have been looking at doing for a while, but this is definitely a good reason to get on and do it!