What Did I Learn When My Website Got Hacked?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Today's question comes from Gaynete, who asks about the time my website got hacked. What did I learn from getting the site hacked? What would I do differently to prevent future attacks? I share the 11 things I learned from the DDOS attack that will help you prevent your site from getting hacked—or help you recover if a site hack happens to you. The plugins I discuss for limiting logins are Limit Login Attempts (https://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/) and Wordfence (https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/). The password managers I mention are 1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) and LastPass (https://lastpass.com/). The hosting companies I recommend are Linode (https://www.linode.com/) and Bluehost (http://askpat.com/bluehost). Two other service I recommend are Sucuri (https://sucuri.net/) and Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/). Do you have a question about your website’s security? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to our sponsor, Lynda.com. Try out all of Lynda.com's courses for free for seven days. Go http://lynda.com/AskPat to get started. Thanks to our sponsor, Sidekick. Receive live notifications when someone opens your email. Go to getsidekick.com/pat to check it out. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPat.com.
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0:10.0	Hey, what's up everybody?
0:12.0	Welcome to AskPat episode 410.
0:14.0	Thank you for joining me today.
0:15.0	As always, I'm here to answer your online business questions five days a week.
0:18.0	We have a great question today from Gennete.
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0:53.9	ask pat all right here is genete's question hello how are you pat i'm genethe edwards from genette.com and i have a question for you you speak often about your site getting hacked and how you ran and recorded a video and all of that.
1:14.3	But my question is, what have you learned since getting hacked?
1:17.8	Because I know I have a fear of it.
1:19.4	And I know others around the world do as well.
1:22.4	So what did you learn from it?
1:24.4	What do you think would have prevented it?
1:26.9	And what do you do now just to make sure it
1:29.5	doesn't happen again let me know I'd love hearing from you and I'm sure everyone else will
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