WordPress Security Issues for Lawyers

Site Security

Is your website secure? Odds are No! WordPress is great in many ways BUT it also can leave you open to a lot of security issues.

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Its really important to keep your version of wordpress updated to the latest version because usually the reason they update the version of wordpress is because they find a a security hole they must fix.

You also must update your wordpress plugins. This is because a lot of times plugins can have security issues and that’s why they create a new version of the plugin. Yet if you don’t update it, you might be leaving yourself open to a hacker.   So the bottom line is that your site can get hacked and be infected with malware. Then Google can pick up on this and possibly blacklist your site. Another bad thing can be when your site has a warning message next to it in the Google search results.  This is a really bad thing and most people would not even click on your site and might not want to visit it if they think they might get a virus.

Then if your site is infected with malware and it has been hacked, then you have to get it fixed. SO a better idea is take the needed steps to make sure your wont get hacked.  There are a lot of different things you can do and I will go over these in more detail in upcoming posts.

Think People Aren’t trying to Hack your site RIGHT NOW?

It seems like they very well might be. Below are some really disturbing stats from a security scan I ran on a site, it shows all attempted logins in real time and it showed about 30 different attempts, in 1 day of people trying to login and guess the password…. These are from different people in different countries and what happens is that if you have a site that has older software and outdated plugins, you are more likely to get hacked and there are a lot of people out there trying to hack you right now!

Here are just a few listing of failed login attempts.

United States Anaheim, United States attempted a failed login as “admin”.
Hostname: taras.lunarservers.com
1 hour 32 mins ago
Europe Europe attempted a failed login as “Admin”.
Hostname: 185.6.93-31.rev.sewan.fr
2 hours 22 mins ago
Europe Europe attempted a failed login as “Admin”.
Hostname: 185.6.93-31.rev.sewan.fr
2 hours 22 mins ago
Europe Europe attempted a failed login as “Admin”.
Hostname: 185.6.93-31.rev.sewan.fr
2 hours 22 mins ago
United States Huntsville, United States attempted a failed login as “admin”.
Hostname: gnax-ds32.simplehelix.com
3 hours 24 mins ago
United States Scottsdale, United States attempted a failed login as “admin”.
Hostname: ip-184-168-109-23.ip.secureserver.net
3 hours 35 mins ago
Its important to make sure your site is updated with the latest versions of wordpress. Yet it also makes sense to monitor your site on a regular basis to make sure that the hackers cant take over your site or infect it with malware.  Its important to keep on top of this because its very possible for your site to get hacked and you wont know about it for weeks until its to late and you now are banned from Google because your site is infected with malware.

Contact us today if you would like assistance with protecting your law firm site.

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