So someone tried to hack my website, here’s what I did.

Thursday afternoon, I started to get an influx of dodgy contact form entries, this made me suspicious and I started an investigation on my own site.

I’ve got security hardening in place so happily the hacker was not able to get into my site.

Here’s a video of my investigation and how I cut the script kiddie off at the knees.

Video

Plugins And Software Mentioned

The security plugin I use is Wordfence and my CDN / Firewall software is cloudflare.

Wrap Up – So Someone Tried To Hack My Website

The moral of the story is to harden security before the hackers turn their attention to your site.  Get a decent security pugin in place and consider cloudflare for the nuclear option to block an entire country.

If you need help hardening the security of your WordPress site, click here to get a no obligation quote.

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