Be honest: How secure are your WordPress installations? Securing WordPress has in the past years always been an after-thought or for the very big and professional blogs. Probably 90% has no other protection then the basic anti-spam protections like Akismet, which is really really needed.
With WordPress being on the rise as one of the most important CMS-systems so come the security flaws and problems. I’m not saying WordPress is unsafe since the core seems to be quite holding up to all the pressure. The Achilles’ heel seems to be the plugins. Which is also one of the most important features. Let me set out a few basic protection strategies to prevent bad people from breaking in.
