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Since few months, I’ve been hearing lot of horror stories regarding the security compromises that bloggers have to deal with. It’s open source nature, what has been the boon for WordPress, is now standing against it (For Hardcore Open-source lovers – I am in favor of Open-source all the way and that statement of mine should not be taken as personal attack). There have been many blogs that weren’t using the latest version of WordPress are now infected with some sort of worm or some hacker gets access to the web server and misuses your precious resources. There are cases where they even harm the website by effecting its search engine rankings.

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WordPress, Firefox and many open-source projects are great however, because of their open nature, they generally get targeted by hackers & notorious fellows. Its pretty important to keep your blog software up to date, if its based on any open-source code as the security breachers tend to attack on old codes.

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What would have been the ideal time to discover about this wonderful product, more than now when I’ve recently published various blog posts on security of WordPress blogs. I was amazed to know about YubiKey USB token that secures your WordPress blog with a two-factor authentication mechanism.

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Sherif Elsisi has a wonderful blog on WordPress and related stuff and I was amazed to see the amount of efforts he has put in to ensure that bloggers take care of their blog’ security. He has posted lot of blog posts and has written about lots of security plugins and that should help most of you!

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We’ve already stressed on the importance of strong password in the security check series. And i’m sure that some of you’ll be surprised to find out that “Username” of the blog plays an important role in the security of the blog. If you don’t tend to agree, then here’s some food for thought – Will it be difficult if you were to guess only password or will it be difficult for you to guess both username & password?

While you ponder over the question (are you still thinking about it? if the answer is yes, go ahead and take these mind exercises or play these games), I would remind you to ensure that you subscribe to our blog for regular tips like these.

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Till this time we’ve covered the basics of security measures that one should take to secure their blogs. Today we are going to take slightly advanced approach and will try to ensure that automatic bots will not be able to gain access to your blog easily as we’ll change the table structure of the blog. Don’t worry if it sounds scary to you; we’ll ensure that you’ll be able to do it pretty easily as there are various tools available for the same.

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In the world of computers and Internet, things get old pretty fast and that is one of the reason why we see WordPress software getting lot of updates frequently. This makes sure that WordPress not only stays safe from vulnerabilities but also gives you latest features that play major role in your blog’s success. We’ve been regular readers of various blogs about blogging and all these gurus suggest the same, why is that? They all understand the security concerns associated with WordPress and how one can stay peacefully after the upgrade.

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