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bimchat · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 10:58 pm
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How secure are you when it comes to an outsider hacking a wordpress hosted blog?
raincoaster · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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Very. The only successful hacks I’ve ever heard of here were when someone had an easy to guess password and when someone made an untrustworthy person an admin and got deleted from their own blog. Pick challenging passwords and don’t make other people admins of your blog and you’ll be safe.
teck07 · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 11:07 pm
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WordPress.com is very secure unless you do one of the following that raincoaster, mentioned
bimchat · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 11:09 pm
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Fine. One last question. How can u tell when someone is trying to hack in?
raincoaster · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 11:11 pm
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You can’t. Staff can; they’re the ones who have access to that kind of info.
bimchat · Member · Aug 15, 2008 at 11:20 pm
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Thanks
teck07 · Member · Aug 16, 2008 at 1:16 am
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If this subject is resolved could you please mark it resolved.. Thank You, :)
tellyworth · Staff · Aug 16, 2008 at 1:26 am
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Staying secure

In short: use a strong password for both your WordPress.com account and your email account. Don’t use the same password for both. Don’t add administrators to your blog unless you want to transfer ownership to them.

If everyone did those things there would be no “hacked” blogs.

WordPress.com staff use and recommend Keepass (free, Windows/Linux/Mac) and 1Password ($35, Mac) for creating and managing scure account passwords.
rpahk · Member · Sep 6, 2008 at 5:59 pm
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one more question: how can I restrict access to the blog to ONLY those invited to join?
raincoaster · Member · Sep 6, 2008 at 8:05 pm
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Set it to Private. There’s a thread in the FAQ about it.

http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/can-i-password-protect-my-whole-blog/

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