While some WordPress designers don’t give a second thought to the security of sites they design, others turn to a variety of plugins they hope will keep hackers at bay. Others, as you’ll see, have taken a more fundamental approach to security concerns.
The world’s most popular content management system and a mainstay for businesses, WordPress and its sites are a popular target of hackers. The Flashback botnet attack that has infected more than 700,000 Macs, for instance, has now been traced to hacked and malware-rigged WordPress blogs.
