Scared website hacked

  • Erick

    (@dperezr)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Basically long story short, all my passwords stopped working not allowing me to log in to my account, had to do a phpadmin reset. Call my hosting and check no new files were made. Seems no one enter the site but I still got worried.

    I really wonder why this happen in the first place

    also in the process of checking that everything was okay I installed securi to do some key restorations and changing passwords for users.

    My question is, securi has some really useful things I mentioned above that wordfence doesn’t has, and wordfence has features that securi doesn’t has, would it affect my website performance if i have both? also would they interfere with each other ?

    what are your thoughts wordfence?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/

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  • WFBrian

    (@wfbrian)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Erick,

    I know that there are others using both products together. Our standard recommendation is to not use the same features on each plugin at the same time. Doing so keeps conflicts to a minimum. Every environment is different, so start with some small tests to see if any conflicts exist.

    Also, make sure your plugins and themes are up-to-date. Security vulnerabilities in out dated plugins and themes seem to be the most common way for attackers to affect user accounts.

    Thanks,
    Brian

    Thread Starter Erick

    (@dperezr)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    you know which features not to duplicate? I am not using securi firewall. I think that is the only feature that might interfere with wordfence

    WFBrian

    (@wfbrian)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Nothing specific. Just avoid duplicating functionality across plugins. For example, if you are using caching from Wordfence, do not enable caching in another plugin. Using your example, do not enable another firewall if you are using Wordfence for the firewall feature.

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