WordPress is not secure, don't use it!

In a way, securing a website is much like securing a home, storefront, or car in the real world. The best defense is to look like a harder, less valuable target than someone else.

If the time and effort required don't match up with the potential returns, most hackers will move on to easier prey - and there's still a lot of easy prey out there.

Be like the guy who laced up his running shoes before venturing into bear country. When his companion laughed and told him he couldn't outrun the bear, he replied that he didn't have to. He just had to outrun his friend.

It is totally depend on your website how you have to make your own website.If you want to make your website secure on wordpress platform, you can use domain with "https://" to make your website secure.

I don't see that there's anything inherently wrong with using a third party platform. Lots of people use proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows or OSX. They don't own those platforms, they are only licensed to use them. But using those platforms to run a business is not the same as saying that Microsoft or Apple owns any business that those platforms are used to run.

In a similar way, I bet most people don't own their own servers, but that doesn't mean their hosting company owns their business.

Google doesn't own any business that uses its Blogger platform. I understand why people say that though. It comes from the idea that if a person uses Google's .blogspot.com subdomain, then they are subject to losing their web address due to Googles whim. The same is true if a person hosts a Wordpress web site on a subdomain owned by their hosting company.

But people have the option to own their own domain (or not) regardless if they use Blogger or if they use a hosting company to run Wordpress.

Then there's also the issue of who owns the content of a web site hosted on Blogger, or Wordpress. Google does not own content published on Blogger, just as hosting companies don't own content posted on Wordpress blogs hosted on their servers.

I've heard horror stories of people having their sites shut down on blogger, I'd guess for publishing spammy craptastic content. People also get shut down by their hosting companies. In any case, it's of great importance to maintain regular backups of content.

The person who wishes to blog on Blogger can do so safely if they have their own domain, and if they keep regular backups which can be imported into a Wordpress blog very easily if they ever need to go that route.

I'm not a blogger or a Wordpress advocate, but I just wanted to clear up some misunderstandings about blogger.

If I had to choose between either of those platforms, I'd go with Wordpress, but for others who are not so technically oriented, blogging can be safely done with Blogger provided they use their own domain, and make backups regularly.

Here's some examples of blogs hosted on blogger where people are doing it right by having a domain name instead of a .blogspot.com subdomain (remember, using subdomains owned by someone else isn't just a bad idea on blogger, it's a bad idea on any host):

http://www.kellyskornerblog.com/

http://www.kellehampton.com/

http://www.thewonderforest.com/

http://www.aspensummit.co/

http://www.breakfastattoast.com/

http://www.livinginyellow.com/

ORLY?

https://www.gov.uk/government/collec...urity-guidance

Summary: CESG, the UK government's arm that assesses operating systems and software security, has published its findings for 'End User Device' operating systems. The most secure of the lot? Ubuntu 12.04.

Please, I'd love more anecdotal evidence from you though...

Any site is insecure when it becomes attractive to a determined attacker just ask your government if you are in any doubts about that statement.

Thus as others have pointed out there are simple steps you can make to increase site security.

Do not use any default installation settings for your site, the database name, table name, user name and many more.

Install one of the many security plugins that exist

Create a schedule to backup your site on a regular basis and most importantly actually do it!

And finally do not make your site insanely secure because then it may just become worth attacking!

I think a lot of it has to do with several hosting companies marketing "Wordpress hosting" at premium prices. They try to scare people into buying their flavor of specialized hosting.

For those of you still worried about security, you can take a big step forward by NOT using the fantastico install. It may be one-click easy, but that convenience opens up several possibilities for hackers. For a start, the database and db usernames use a standard format. Use the five minute manual install, and choose database and db usernames that are hard to crack, just like choosing secure passwords.

Use a complicated name for the admin account, and set up a separate account to actually post under. Choose and use a secure password to log in, and change the password from time to time.

As others have said, no system is totally secure. But, like securing your house or car, if you make things tough enough for the would-be hacker, they'll pass you by for easier pickings.