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Did you know Word Press does not come with a security package built in which is why you need to know about Word Press Security!

August eTech offers Word Press Web Security Services.  Here are just a few things we can do for your Word Press site.

  • Configure web security software based on the web developers programming and plugins.
  • Admin and username security configuration.
  • Plugin and WordPress security updates and patches based on the web developers programming and plugins.
  • Malware Scanning.
  • DDOS Prevention.
  • PHP injection prevention.
  • Block unwanted http request.
  • Bad host banning

Here is an article from Robert Abela on Word Press Hacker Statistics .

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Statistics Show Why WordPress is a Popular Hacker Target

According to statistics From 40,000+ WordPress Websites in Alexa Top 1 Million, more than 70{e53893828c6617e55677bd7479ef314f8a2ce1ed1ac821396f95bf0cd992c739} of WordPress installations are vulnerable to hacker attacks.

Ever wondered why WordPress is such a popular target for malicious hackers? Why in 2012 more than 117,000 WordPress installations were hacked? The statistics in this article explain why.

The statistics are from a research held between the 12th and 15th of September 2013, just 1 day after the release of WordPress 3.6.1, which contained several fixes to critical exploitable vulnerabilities, such as remote code execution. The research was done by Sandro Gauci, CEO and Founder of EnableSecurity. Mr Gauci also built all the tools for this research. We would like to thank Mr Gauci for sharing the results with us and allowing us to come up with such statistics.

WordPress Versions Statistics | The Shocking Truth

The below statistics are are based on 42,106 WordPress websites found in Alexa’s top 1 million websites.

  • There are 74 different versions of WordPress.
  • 11 of these versions are invalid. For example version 6.6.6.
  • 18 websites had an invalid non existing versions of WordPress.
  • 769 websites (1.82{e53893828c6617e55677bd7479ef314f8a2ce1ed1ac821396f95bf0cd992c739}) are still running a subversion of WordPress 2.0.
  • Only 7,814 websites (18.55{e53893828c6617e55677bd7479ef314f8a2ce1ed1ac821396f95bf0cd992c739}) upgraded to WordPress 3.6.1.
  • 1,785 websites upgraded to version 3.6.1 between the 12th and the 15th of September.
  • 13,034 websites (30.95{e53893828c6617e55677bd7479ef314f8a2ce1ed1ac821396f95bf0cd992c739}) are still running a vulnerable version of WordPress 3.6.

**August eTech did not write or publish this article.