Comments on: Blog Security ~ Or How to Keep Your Blog from being Hacked

By: Young Wife

Young Wife — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:01:05 +0000

Excellent. This has been on my mind recently. Glad you were able to recover your blog.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:53:19 +0000

Thanks for the great post! I just have a small family blog but this is all great stuff to know. I had never heard of a Google Webmaster account, so I just set one up!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:30:28 +0000

I had no idea that someone would hack into a blog. Thanks for sharing the lessons you learned.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:55:11 +0000

So sorry this happened to you but am glad you got it all fixed. Thank you so much for the tips! I thought our bank accounts were safe too since we keep very little money in them. But lo and behold they got hacked into causing lots of headaches! Someone had a nice cross country shopping spree on us!(we got our $ back though!)

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:43:54 +0000

WordPress.org also has a backup plugin that has received 4 stars with almost 275,000 downloads. I haven’t used it personally but it may be worth researching. For those asking, if you are using WordPress, and some others, don’t forget to backup your database. Any good host will have instructions on their website.

Thank you Happy Housewife & family for all of the awesome information you provide. It is a wonderful service to the online community and my own household, in particular.

By: Noel

Noel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:47:11 +0000

some people have too much time on their hands. What do hackers get out of doing this??

By: Jenn @ Beautiful Calling

Jenn @ Beautiful Calling — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:35:38 +0000

My husband is the IT guy in our home. He installed a Blogger Backup Utility on my computer and I just click the button once every couple days or so and it does it automatically.
I’ll ask him which site he got it from and come back with it

By: Jen@Balancing Beauty and Bedlam

Jen@Balancing Beauty and Bedlam — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:50:39 +0000

HOLY COW – that is scary and so sad that there are so many creeps out there. Ok, I have to learn more about this, and find out what key words people use. I have no idea. The google webmaster is just located through Google?

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:16:07 +0000

Thanks so much for the tips. I want to back up my blog…what do you use to do that?

Thanks!

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:02:47 +0000

Great tips.

I’m wondering how you back up a blog? Do you just copy your html?

thanks for your help!