How do i prevent my blog from getting hacked?

Answer 1

I suggest changing the password regularly, and reporting the hackings to your blog provider, so they can either blog the IP or warn the one hacking.

Answer 2

Probably you're using a blogging service (ie, MSN Spaces, MySpace, etc), so any of the technical attacks are probably out of your hands. This means you're limited to controlling people from getting in by pretending to be you.

If your user name isn't publicly visible on the blog, use something random. If possible, just let the system generate one for you... sure, it'll look funny the first few times, but you'll get used to it after a couple uses, and it's much harder to guess something randomly generated than something you think will be hard to guess.

Same goes for your password. You shouldn't use any word that could appear in a dictionary, even misspelled, or sp31led !n l337 or any such garbage. A good password cracker will get through any of that in seconds or less. Put punctuation and numbers in. Have upper and lower case letters. Ten characters long is a good number to shoot for, eight at a very minimum. Change it every couple of months, too.

If you do this right, there are only a few things someone can do... they can hit the blog service with a technical attack, and then get into your blog through there, or they can hit you with either a social engineering attack. The blog service has put a lot of time and money into making things fairly secure from the technical end (or they should have, at least), but you haven't. This makes you the weak point... anyone who really wants to get into your blog will try to go through you.

Luckily, social engineering is simple to defend against: Never give your username or password to anyone. Ever. The best way to keep a secret is to never tell anyone about it. Never write your credentials down. Never give your information to anyone on the internet, no matter how official they sound. Never tell your friends what your password is. Never type in your password while someone is watching you. Never type it into a public computer. It's very simple, and you don't need any technical knowledge to do it.

There is also the possibility of hitting you with a technical attack. Hitting a home computer is usually not worth the trouble, but if someone can get onto your network, they might be able to listen to your network traffic and learn your username and password from there. To prevent this, you should always log in through a secure interface (ie, an https page) if you can. Don't run an unprotected wifi access point, and even if you do run a protected one, make sure you've got a key on your network, that you're not broadcasting, and that you've got your MAC address filter turned on.

Good luck.

Answer 3

IF someone needs to bypass to the time and difficulty, you could't circumvent being hacked. (Even significant businesses have this problem.) there is no such ingredient as a hackproof internet connection. ideal you should do is keep an OFF-LINE replica of your internet website programming so that you'll reload it AFTER it is been hacked.