{"id":70,"date":"2015-12-03T17:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2015-12-03T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T17:20:40","slug":"wordpress-websites-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wordpress-websites-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"How Are WordPress Websites Hacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what the most common\u00a0reason WordPress sites are hacked, so you can avoid becoming one of the many victims?<\/p>\n<p>First, let's take a look at how computers of any kind (desktop, laptop, and websites) are hacked according to experts, compared to\u00a0what the average person \"thinks\":<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stay-safe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stay-safe.png\" alt=\"stay-safe\" width=\"650\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stay-safe.png 650w, https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/stay-safe-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/soups2015\/soups15-paper-ion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/soups2015\/soups15-paper-ion.pdf<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Non-experts believe that the way to stay safe is to use strong passwords and run an antivirus program, but actual experts tell us that the best thing we can do are: keep our\u00a0software up to date (most important), and use unique passwords (meaning use one password for your website control panel, a different one for your email account, a different one for your WordPress backend, and so on).<\/p>\n<p>Next, here's a survey\u00a0of people who were hacked.\u00a0Most have no idea how someone got in (that is scary in itself) but the root cause\u00a0was mostly out of date software and NOT a stolen password as you might guess:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71\" src=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/compromised-how.png\" alt=\"compromised-how\" width=\"857\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/compromised-how.png 857w, https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/compromised-how-300x240.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopbadware.org\/files\/compromised-websites-an-owners-perspective.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.stopbadware.org\/files\/compromised-websites-an-owners-perspective.pdf<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And finally, we can see that not only is WordPress the most popular website Content Management System in use today, but it's also the least updated:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" src=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sucuri-outdated-software.png\" alt=\"sucuri-outdated-software\" width=\"805\" height=\"764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sucuri-outdated-software.png 805w, https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/sucuri-outdated-software-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sucuri.net\/2013\/09\/over-10-of-alexa-top-million-websites-are-not-safe-infographic-report.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blog.sucuri.net\/2013\/09\/over-10-of-alexa-top-million-websites-are-not-safe-infographic-report.html<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Luckily, when you use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\" target=\"_blank\">Website Remote<\/a> with your WordPress blog, you can easily update our WordPress software, plugins and themes, all in one click. Plus, you can one-click login to your WordPress sites from that dashboard, meaning you can set each WordPress site to have a different password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder what the most common\u00a0reason WordPress sites are hacked, so you can avoid becoming one of the many victims? First, let&#8217;s take a look at how computers of any kind (desktop, laptop, and websites) are hacked according to experts, compared to\u00a0what the average person &#8220;thinks&#8221;: Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.usenix.org\/system\/files\/conference\/soups2015\/soups15-paper-ion.pdf Non-experts believe that the way to stay safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-training","has-inline-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.websiteremote.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}