Why do I even need to worry about security for wordpress ?

I’ve heard it loads of times ‘my site has nothing important, no-one would want to hack it’

The truth is cyber criminals and bot networks don’t know you, or care about your site.

They are interested in hacking your site to

•  use it to hack others – they build up a huge network of hacked sites, to use as weapons
• deface your site, and extort money from you to repair it
• just causing mahem

What I find interesting is small companies paying $5-$15/month in hosting that does not have good security. You’ll find your clean up bill for a hack will run into the hundreds. I’ve even seen people lose their website, and have to start again, as they find out their backups also contained the hack.

By Scott Farrell on December 19th, 2015 , Follow @scott_WordPress Tweet to @scott_WordPress