WordPress is among the most popular blogging platforms being used. And because it is so popular it becomes a common target for hackers. Fortunately, it supports a wide ecosystem of free plugins and services that can help you enhance the security of your WordPress blog. We have already seen how to keep websites secure and deal with threats and vulnerabilities in general. In this post we will see how to harden security so as to protect and secure your self-hosted WordPress site.

Secure WordPress site

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SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites

News of a malware campaign against WordPress has been doing the rounds since owners and webmaster of wordpress blogs found out about websites getting blacklisted by Google. Around 11,000 domains had been blocked due to the latest malware campaign which has now swelled to 100,000. This campaign  has been brought by SoakSoak.ru, thus being dubbed the ‘SoakSoak Malware’ epidemic.

The malware

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