You may well have heard all the buzz online about the attacks on WordPress security. Unfortunately this is no joke, and it needs to be taken very seriously, or all you've built could be hijacked or worse, lost to you.
Since scare tactics appear to be at least start considering the problem, or what drives some people to take rename your login url to secure your wordpress website a little more seriously, let me shoot a scare tactics your way.
No software system is immune to vulnerabilities and bugs. Security holes will be discovered and bad men will do their best to exploit them. Keeping your software up-to-date is a fantastic way once security holes are found because their products will be fixed by reliable software vendors.
You should also set the"Anyone Can Register" in Settings/General to off, and you should have some type of spam plugin. recommended you read Akismet is the old standby, the one I use, but there are many of them these days.
Install the WordPress Firewall Plugin. Prevent and this plugin investigates web requests with WordPress-specific heuristics that are simple to identify attacks.
However, I advise that you install the Login LockDown plugin rather than any.htaccess controls. Login requests will be stopped by that from being allowed from a specific IP-ADDRESS for an hour or so after three failed login attempts. If you accomplish this, it is still possible to Our site access your admin mobile while and yet you have good protection against hackers.