How To Secure Your Wordpress Blogs?

Hackers are the person like you and us but the only difference is that they use their skills for the negative and destructive purposes, they use their skills to break a website, they normally destroy all the stuff's, so if you are a admin of a website you should care about the security of the website.
 As you know that the wordpress is a common and most popular plate form for blogging, but the security of the wordpress is always a hot discussion and it need more and more concentration because vulnerability discover everyday. Below are some tips to make your blog secure:

Secure WP-Admin By IP

Let suppose if someone can get the ability(username & Password) to enter into your website WP section, you can restrict this area by your IP. It prevent brute forcing attack and only you can able to control on your website because of IP restriction.

Order deny,allow
Deny from All
Allow from 123.456.789.0
You can allow and deny IP's from a range use this:
order deny,allow deny from all # allow my home IP address allow from XX.XX.XXX.XXX # allow my work IP address allow from XX.XX.XXX.XXX


Protect WP-Config.php File

WP-Config.php file has a great importance on wordpress plate form, it need more care and usually an attacker get the required information about the database of your website from WP-Config file. Basically if you use a strong database user-name and password while your WP-Config security is low than an attacker can get your strong user-name and password from wp-config file, because it contain all the information about the security and other things of your website.

Access .htaccess file is located at the root your WordPress installation open it and paste the following code.

order allow,deny
deny from all



Hide WordPress Version Number

You must hide the version of your wordpress because an attacker may find the available exploit by searching it on different exploit database by version number and it may cause a great harm for your blog so be care about it.

This tag is in the header.php file that displays your current version of wordpress

Copy and paste the code in the functions.php file of your theme and than you are done.


remove_action('wp_head', 'wp_generator');

Remove Error Message From Login Screen 

This is your clever move to remove the error message that an attacker would not able to see if the user-name and password incorrect, update your function.php by this code.

add_filter('login_errors',create_function('$a', \"return null;\"));


Some Other Security Tips

Use your mind because mind is an essential part to secure yourself on the jungle of web.

• Create strong passwords that are not easily be guess or crack.

• Secure your own side(your computer) from different malware.

• Make regular backup of your blog.

• Update your wordpress to latest version

• Use SSH instead of FTP

• Avoid using your account on public places

• You must be ware on different attacks to secure yourself.

About The Author

This post is written by an Irfan Shaeel An Ethical hacker and Penetration tester, Irfan blogs At his blog Ehacking.net

Finding A Spoofed Website With A Javascript

Lots of people think that Javascript is an inferior language but Javascript is an extremly powerful language and those people who think the other way they either don't know how to use it or are not familiar with it's capabilities, With javascript you can do lots of cool things such as edit any page, make an image fly etc, but it is a waste of time to spend your time on making images fly with javascripts or editing a page.
Anyways coming to the main topic, did you know that javascript can be used to detect if a page is a spoofed website or phishing website or a legit one, well if you don't know just paste the following code in to the address bar and a pop up will appear telling you whether the website is original or not
Here is the Javascript code:

javascript:alert("The actual URL is:\t\t" + location.protocol + "//" + location.hostname + "/" + "\nThe address URL is:\t\t" + location.href + "\n" + "\nIf the server names do not match, this may be a spoof.");

Beware - New Hotmail Account Scam Alert

Every day I hear people complaining that their hotmail account is hacked, Now as I have told couple of times before in my previous posts related to email hacking that there are only two foolproof methods i.e. Phishing and keylogging which are mostly used to hack email accounts.
Today I received an email in my hotmail inbox the email looked as it was from "Windows Live Team" and the subject of the email was "Hotmail Account Alert"

Here is the screen shot of how the email looked like:

"Dear Account Owner


Due to the congestion in all Windows Live Account we are removing all unused Account, Windows Live would be shutting down all unused and unconfirmed Account, You are hereby ask to confirm your Account by filling out your Login Information below after clicking the reply button. Your Accounts will be suspended within 48 hours for security reasons if you refuse to reply this message.


* Username:
* Password:
* Date of Birth:
* Country Or Territory:


After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience.


Sincerely,
The Windows Live Team"

If any one of you have received these kinds of emails, The email is 100% Fake and it is not from a Windows Live team and is a attempt to hack your hotmail or any other password, Hotmail and windows live team employees will never ask for Password,

It's quite impressive to see that Hackers now a days instead of using complicated methods such as Phishing and Keylogging are using social engineering to get the work done, because now a days lots of modern browsers have Phishing filter by default so these types of attacks get detected easily and hackers do not want to waste their time in making the servers Fully Un detectable(FUD), instead they are using a simple social engineering attack which does require any softwares and other resources.

Have you ever received these kinds of email scams?