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What Are User Enumeration Attacks and How To Protect Your WordPress Website For Free_ 🔒
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Oct 21, 2023
In this video, you'll gain a clear understanding of user enumeration attacks and learn how to fortify your WordPress website against them, all without any additional costs. The tutorial outlines the risks associated with user enumeration attacks and provides practical, cost-effective strategies to safeguard your site's security. Whether you're a WordPress website owner, developer, or administrator, this video equips you with essential knowledge to protect your website and user data from potential threats, ensuring a safe and secure online presence.
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What's up, guys
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There's Claudia from VisualMoto WordPress teams. And in today's video, you're going to learn how to make your WordPress website safe
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for you, your users, your bloggers, your team, your customers, okay? So this is a way to prevent your WordPress website from user enumeration
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But what is this? This is a very common hacking practice that can collect your website
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username, and try to use brute force into those user names to maybe enter
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on your site access important information, hack accounts, collect email addresses and other
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things that is really, really bad for your site security. So how to stop user enumeration
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It's what we're going to learn into this video in order to make your site safer for free
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But before I can continue, please take a moment to hit a subscribe button, like this video
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and share this content with a friend of yours. You have no idea how much it helps us because you bring daily videos about WordPress, SEO
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plugins, optimizations and many, many more topics. in order to choose internet-owned sites' favor
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So let's get this started and while installing this, we're gonna explain more about this, okay
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So, very first thing to do, move to our WordPress dashboard. Normally it's jordomine.com
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WP-a-D-Minn, or WP login, login through your dashboard, and review the left sidebar of menus over our mouse over plugins and click on Add New Into the upper right corner of our screen we have an option called it next to your keyword
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you have an option called search plugins, and we're going to type stop user enumeration
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And you're going to be installed this plugin right here. This is a security plugin that works for free, and it's even recommended by WP Engine
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that is a big WordPress hosting company okay so as soon as you click on activate you're
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going to be redirected to this page that is the plugin settings page you can do a donation once
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this plugin is free and have no premium version we can and i really recommend that you
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submit a review for this plugin because it has a very very important feature for our site security
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and they work this for free and updates all for free so i recommend okay so about the plugin
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stop user enumeration detect attempts by malicious scanners to identify your users. If a bot or user is called scanning for usernames, they are denied to access
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and their IP are logged. So it scans your site in order to protect it. So what are the options
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By default, the plugin already enable all of the important features. Okay. So stop rest IPI user calls
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This is really good for performance as well Stop all embed calls preventing user IDs Very good for performance too Disable WP core author site maps
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What is this? Imagine that you have an author on your blog
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so a person that can blog on our site that can create posts. By the full WordPress create an author page
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And though this author page have the outer username, the outer name, the outer email
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and with this information, a malicious. software a malicious person can for example try to brute force and reset passwords for example okay so
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this is really bad so disabling this and removing this for website site maps this can make your site
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safer log attain for off log really good as well okay and after this remove numbers from
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comments authors really really really good as well okay so no need to do any anything
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thing right here okay if you change this does not just do not forget to save
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change but the default settings it's good enough you can locate then under
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WordPress left sidebar of menu settings and stop user enumeration okay so after
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the plugin started you are already safer so your users are safer your site
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are safer and it absolutely nothing else to do whoever there is another very famous plugin that can help you on that But I can explore this into the tomorrow video
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So subscribe this channel so I can share it with you tomorrow. But it is
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Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Feel free to use the comment section below in the case that I have any question
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Don't forget to check out the visual mode of borderless plugin. Checking Rejeds, elements and Pleasium Tools to build up your site
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It's completely free. And still on free things. install Enzoo WordPress team from WPorg
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This is our free WordPress team that can make your site looks fantastic
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Moreover, in the case they run a blog and would like to submit your site in order to get listed in a blogging community
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to connect with Pearson's, let working, receive guest posts, publish gas posts on our site
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Just go to growth with www.net and submit your site. And as a final nutsy, in the case that I want to go premium while doing your WordPress website
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go to visual model.com, purchase the VisualMoto Pass, and unlock access to our full templates
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library that are pre-built websites that you can import with a single click, or support, premium icons
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assets, templates, blocks, and many, many more pro features. And that is, hope you guys enjoy this video, and I see you tomorrow
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All the best. Thank you
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