Password cracking into WordPress blogs is a common practice among malicious hackers (aka crackers). They use password cracking script that repeatedly try to guess your password and login.
Unfortunately, if your WordPress site gets hacked the results can be devastating. A hacker attack could lead to having thousands of spam links on all your website pages, redirecting your website visitors somewhere else, malicious malware injected that could infect your visitors computers, get your site blacklisted on search engines, having your website defaced, and/or completely wiping out all of your content.
As a website owner, it's your responsibility to protect your site and your visitors.
One area of security is to use very strong passwords for all your administrator, contributor, author and editor user accounts.
5 tips to create strong passwords for your WordPress blog:
Your passwords should be a minimum of 14 characters long. When creating passwords never use words you find in the dictionary, your own name or your website name. Use a combination of upper and lower case letters, number and symbols. According to the WordPress wp-admin/install.php file, it suggests the following symbols for a stronger password:! "? $ % ^ & ). Don't use the same password twice for anywhere you log-in Online, including your FTP, cPanel, wp-admin, database, email, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Every month (or quarter), you should change your passwords.While these tips might seem like a lot of extra work, it's worth your time and effort to make sure that a hacker can't crack into your site by guessing your passwords.
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