Nowadays, people access blogs for exchanging ideas with others. Bloggers retain their blogs and constantly update them either for financial benefits of just out of passion.
Worldwide Blogging is considered as a serious business by many people as for some it is the main source of income, while other bloggers just get some extra income out of it. Keeping this in mind and also the fact that blogs are considered being the 5th most trustworthy source of information that you can find on the internet, if you own a blog you should definitely consider any available options for protecting it.
Malware infection on blogsMalware infection is a common “harm” that can be caused to your blog, believe it or not, as cyber criminals are very creative in doing their malicious work. Some sources of infection for your blog can be:
- Your web hosting control panel
- Infected advertisement banners
- Breaking the administrator password
- Code injections in the blog’s HTML
- Plugins integrating with your blogging platform
Checking whether your blog is infectedWhen you created your blog, you may had thought that marketing and writing skills are all you needed to have. Well that would be wrong. A blog owner needs to know how to keep the blog data protected and which measures to take for staying protected against cyber-attacks. You can define whether your blog is infected by the presence of these symptoms:
- The appearance of your blog has changed and your content and graphics replaced by others (website defacement).
- Your blog’s visitors are prompted to download and install apps like Java or Flash player just upon their visit to the blog’s page.
- You receive an error message when you try to access the blog.
- You see banners about guns, drugs etc. appearing.
- Immediately when you try to access the blog you get redirected to another site (URL redirects).
- You receive notifications from your hosting providers about spam alerts coming from your site.
Here are 7 important tips for keeping your blog secure
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