A Brief overview of WordPress and common security issues. Talks about hosting, commen WordPress infection types and features resources to help keep WordPress secure.
3. The Web is HUGE!!!
There are over 1.8 Billion active websites on the web.
• 43% of the top 1 million websites are hosted in USA itself.
• 48% of the top 100 blogs/websites run on WordPress.
• 672 Exabytes - 672,000,000,000 Gigabytes (GB) of accessible data.
6. Implications of a Hacked Site
• SEO rankings wrecked
• Loss of customer trust
• Visitors exposed to malware
• Hours of time wasted assessing & repairing damage
• Loss of sales/money
7. Types of Attacks
Opportunistic Targeted
• Web Trolls
• Ability for mass exposure
• Timthumb
• Big Enterprises
• Wordpress.com
• Woothemes
• Usually worth the time and energy
invested to compromise
• Done for bigger returns
8. Top 5 WordPress Infections
• Backdoors
• Difficult to detect via http
• Good time to start crying
• Pharma Attacks
• Owners usually detect
• Now shamefully selling viagra or some other drug
• Injections
• Think fake Anti-virus downloads
• Defacements
• You’re now supporting a rebel army
• Malicious Redirects
9. Know Your Environment
• What kind of security does your host use?
• What will they do if your site gets hacked?
• Will they fix it?
• Will they shut it down?