Oops, I was wrong. Its not from Microsoft, its from pctools, but its good anyway.

http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

Just in time, I badly needed this info. Just 3 days ago my website was hacked and its says "Hacked by Gilas". The host provider advised me to delete and recreate the hosting account for security measures.

Originally Posted by moiraesfate

Oops, I was wrong. Its not from Microsoft, its from pctools, but its good anyway. http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

Thanks for the link, I'll check that out. Good idea to change passwords I guess...I'm going to have to do that more often!

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Originally Posted by BoostVirtualServices

Thanks for the link, I'll check that out. Good idea to change passwords I guess...I'm going to have to do that more often!

Make sure that when you change your password that you make it more difficult. Sometimes when you think that you are creating something easy for you to remember you are making it easy for you to be attacked. Think the same way that you would walking down the street or in the real world. Sometimes just creating enough of a deterrent is enough to slow down or eliminate a threat.

Use lots of characters and letters...be sure that some are capital.

I try to think of a phrase...a catchy phase that I like, make the first words of the phrase capital, swap out letters for numbers in the phrase and if possible throw a character or two in there.

I know it's tempting to name your pet, or friend or something familiar and then just throw a number at the beginning or the end...the number at the beginning or end is also accounted for when people are hacking so put the number in the middle like in a phrase (mentioned above) for example substitute the number zero for the letter "O."

I hope this helps!

I use a plugin similiar to the one listed above that puts my backup directly in dropbox for me. I have it set up to backup my site once a week and I do this late on Saturday as that is when my site traffic seems to be lowest just in case it slows down my site while running. I just recently started using it so don't have enough stats on it to say it's the best option or I might need to tweek my settings, but it seems to be working well and I love the idea that my backups are automatic, and put in dropbox for me. That's where I would put it anyway.

The name of plugin is - WordPress Backup to Dropbox and here's the link http://wpb2d.com/

Best of luck. I'm so sorry this has happened to you.

Rhonda

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I just did a post last month addressing fears about the safety of WordPress. It gives tips to help you breathe a little easier about your WP website being secure and I share the names of a couple of plugins that I use on all of my installations that are a big help with security as well.

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