Plugin-based firewall: We human are under protection from the moment we are born. We are clothed, kept under a shelter called home and when we grow up to become someone important we are given more layers of protection (like armed guards). Likewise, a website needs many layers of protection. Firewall is one such layer. It takes…

Layered Defense: Earlier this week, we learned that a WordPress-based ticket distribution site was hacked. The hacker also stole and leaked details of customers and employees. This is not usual. Every few months, we learn of either a massive hack attempt made on numerous websites or a big website being compromised, backdoors being inserted, or…

It’s not time to rest yet! Cleaning a WordPress site is only half the job! If you don’t have post-cleanup measures in place, hackers will return. Following a hack, one of the first things that hackers do is create backdoors so that they can keep returning to your site even after it’s clean. A few security…

Theme Affects Security of a Site: When I built my first WordPress (WP) site, I remember fiddling with many free themes. I tried out every free theme I got my hands on, designing and redesigning the website. Back then I had no idea that one has to be careful in selecting a theme since it…

The internet is such a powerful medium of communication that brands can no longer ignore it if they mean to grow. From multinational companies to small businesses, everyone has a website. Which enables them to connect with their clients and even expand their reach. Having a virtual presence is almost as important to have a physical…

Are you dreading a hack attack any moment? With hundreds and thousands of WordPress sites becoming targets of hack attempts each year, the paranoia is justified. To combat this situation, there are several security solutions on the market who promise to protect and preserve your website from malicious bots, hackers and the rest. But how…

Finding out that your website is hacked is a nightmare. Once your site is hacked, hackers will exploit your resources or redirect your visitors to their own websites or insert backdoors, etc. These can have a devastating effort on your website hence if your site is hacked, security experts strongly recommend cleaning it immediately. A…

  There are over 90,000 hack attempts being made on WordPress websites. Once your site is hacked, hackers use it to execute all sorts of malicious activities like sending spam emails, attacking other websites, injecting spam links, redirecting visitors, etc. With hack attacks gaining prominence over the years, WordPress security has become a much-discussed issue….

Upon installing WordPress on your website, a database is automatically created. The database is an important part of your website, and one can access the database from the site’s web hosts account (more on this later). Think of it like a storage cupboard where comments, posts, site name, user details – basically every information on…

MalCare backs up your website by syncing data to its servers. To make the most of MalCare Malware Detection Technology, the website data including all its files and database of the website must be synced completely. The content, pages, text, users information, configuration forms the Database while the images, plugins, themes and WordPress Core forms…