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"do not precede malware danger." I was horrified to remember exactly what it said although there was more. I was worried on being ruined plus humiliated the people on the call had seen me so vulnerable, I had spent hours.
Finally, installing the clean hacked wordpress site Scan plugin will check all this for you, and alert you to anything that you may have missed. Additionally, it will anchor inform you that a user named"admin" exists. That is the administrative user name. You can follow a link and find directions if you desire. I personally think that a password is good security, and there have been no successful attacks on the sites that I run since I followed those steps.
Use strong passwords - Do what you can to use a strong password, alpha-numeric. Easy to remember passwords are easy to guess!
Recently, the site of Reuters was murdered by an unknown hacker and published a news article. Their reputation is already ruined due to what the hacker did since Reuters is a news website. The same thing may happen to you in the event you don't pay attention on the security of your WordPress blog.
Along with adding a secret key to your wp-config.php document, also think about altering your user password into something that is strong and unique. WordPress will tell you the strength of your password, but a great idea is to avoid common phrases, use upper and lowercase letters, and include numbers. It's also a good idea to change your password regularly - say once every six months.
Do not use wp_ useful site as a prefix for your databases. That default is being eliminated by most web hosting providers but if yours does not, fix wp_ to anything but that.