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LMP Blog and Cybersecurity

You’d be surprised how many cyber attacks the LMP blog gets. This month we’ve had 25,316

As a comparison, the helpinleeds.com site has had just 42.  

There are several features that make LMP a target for cyber-attack

  • Subject: Migration, asylum and refuge
  • Platform: It’s a wordpress site, and wordpress sites account for 35% of all websites 

most importantly of all, we use

  • Plugins: – we use a fair number of these, to do things like embed documents
  • Website features: we allow people to upload/post their own content 

There are several things that help keep the LMP site as secure as it is, which we thought we’d share

  • the indefatigable efforts of [email protected] who keeps an eye on things for us
  • a really limited number of users
  • a strict policy of no plugins that haven’t been vetted first  – for example, we use Embed Any Document, and we keep the ones we have updated, and get rid of the ones we don’t use any more) 
  • the use of All In One WP Security and Firewall, Cloudflare, and Wordfence security plugins which help us to prevent bogus logins, and also detect malicious uploads.     

If you or someone you know maintains a wordpress site, please tell them about this post https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/03/attackers-gain-access-wordpress-sites/ which is a guide to keeping your site nice and secure. 

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  1. LMP Blog performance October 2019 – June 2021 | Migration Partnership - 14th July 2021

    […] We’ve blogged about this before, at length (funnily enough, just after we got the last bill). The good news is that attacks have fallen by 90% since February 2020. It’s kind of sad that the worst thing that’s befallen the LMP Blog (the data loss) was not the work of a hostile actor, but our own servers. Maybe we need to spend more on server-backups instead. […]

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