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By Burt

Online Security and Two-Factor Authentication

In a recent blog post by WordPress security firm Wordfence, the information gathered is very serious.

Last week in the President’s cyber security op-ed in the Wall Street Journal he implored Americans to move beyond simple passwords and to enable two factor authentication or cellphone sign-in.

One of the things we monitor at Wordfence is the number of brute force attacks on WordPress websites. Brute force attacks are password guessing attacks, where an attacker tries to sign in as you by guessing your password.

To give you an idea of the level of attacks in the wild, we gathered data on brute force attacks across the sites we protect within a 16 hour Window starting Sunday until Monday (yesterday) at 2pm Pacific time.

Here are the highlights. Remember, this is only over a 16 hour window which is relatively short.

During this time we saw a total of 6,611,909 attacks targeting 72,532 individual websites. We saw attacks during this time from 8,941 unique IP addresses and the average number of attacks per victim website was 6.26.

One of the simplest ways you can protect yourself, your online activity and accounts, and your website is to use two-factor authentication (2FA). 2FA is basically verifying your identity in two ways, typically a user name and password is the first factor and the second is verified using a smartphone with an app, a text message, or a physical device. [Read more…] about Online Security and Two-Factor Authentication

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Is your website protected from hacking?

After spending many hours over the last few weeks fighting/removing malware and malicious code from standard and WordPress websites I thought I should do a general post about web malware.
It may not happen to your website but the chances are good that at some point it will. No website or security system is immune to these attacks.
You should take precautions to protect your site. [Read more…] about Is your website protected from hacking?

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SEO for WordPress

From blogohblog.com: "WordPress SEO guide for beginners – The Blog Oh! Blog way. It can be considered as a crash course for all the people who are struggling to get better search engine results with their WordPress blogs. In this e-book, I will guide you how to rapidly configure your WordPress blog with maximum SEO benefits. Even WordPress veterans can benefit from the tips as they might be missing out on a few points. I am distributing this e-book free of charge just to say thanks to the lovely WordPress community and of course as someone once said, WordPress is a magic CMS!!" Read more and download the guide

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