If you have a WordPress blog or website, WordPress security must be an issue for you. I'm sure you must have heard about hackers attacking blogs and websites of other people. The damage done by them can be enormous, especially when the particular blog was high page ranked, displaying high in search engines and profitable. It is not the only type of websites attacked by hackers. The reasoning behind their acts can't be explained as logical. They will destroy it for fun. I know stories of people who one day, instead of their website saw a short note informing them that their website has been blocked by Google due to the thread it carries to other internet users. It was a result of hacker attack, who made changes to the website.
Installing the secure your wordpress website Scan plugin will check all this for you, and alert you to anything that you may have missed. It will also tell you that a user named"admin" exists. Of course, that is your user name. If you desire, you can follow a link and find instructions for changing that name. Personally, I believe that there is a strong password enough security that is good, and there have been no successful attacks on the sites that I run since I followed those steps.
Safeguard your login credentials - Do not keep your login credentials where they might be found by a hacker. Store them offsite, and even offline. Roboform is very good for protecting them. Food for thought!
For me it's a WordPress plugin. They're drop dead easy to install, have all the features you need for a job like this, and are relatively cheap, especially when compared to having to hire someone to get this done for you.
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There is. People know additionally they could just drop by your login form and where they can login and try outside a different combination of user accounts and passwords. In order to stop this from happening you want to install Login Lockdown. It's a plugin that only lets users attempt and login with a wrong password three times. Following that the IP address will be banned from the server for a certain amount of time.