Finally, installing the fix malware problem Scan plugin alert you that you may have missed, and will check most of this for you. It will also tell you that a user named"admin" exists. That is the administrative user name. You can follow a link and find directions if you desire. I believe that there is a password protection that is good, and there have been no successful attacks on the several sites that you could try here I run since I followed Source these steps.
This is great news as it means that there's a strong community of users and developers that can enhance the platform. However, whenever there's a group of people trying to achieve something, there will always be people who will attempt to take down them.
You should also place the"Anyone Can Register" in Settings/General to off, and you ought to have some type of spam plugin. Akismet is the one I use, the old standby, but there are many of them nowadays.
Black and whitelists pathological-looking phrases based on which area they look inside. (unknown/numeric parameters vs. known post bodies, remark bodies, etc.).
There is. People know where they can login and additionally they could just visit your login form and try outside a different combination of passwords and user accounts. So as to prevent this from happening you need to install Login Lockdown. It is a plugin that lets users try and login with a wrong password three times. Following that the IP address will be banned from the server for a specific amount of time.