Hardening Your Website To Attacks or Making It Easier to Hack Into Someone-Else’s Website

Accepting the defaults for a standard WordPress install can leave your site vulnerable. The hacker’s typical goal is to promote their (spammy) site with backlinks from your site or to spread malicious code. As a result, Google can blacklist your site. While no security is absolute, the presentation will cover several steps that can be taken to make it harder for an attacker to hack into your dashboard.

Level: Intermediate user

Prerequisites: Comfortable with FTP tools and editing text files.