Your cybersecurity company received a call from a client. Their marketing directors WordPress blog was hacked, 3 new posts were created, and a handful of old posts were deleted. They do not know what to do and asked your company to figure out how the hack occurred and recommend next steps. Unfortunately, no one in your group of forensic investigators has dealt with WordPress blogs.
With the constant changes in computer hardware and software, forensic investigators frequently need to learn about new technology or techniques. Since you and your group of forensic investigators are unfamiliar with WordPress, your boss has asked you to do a practice forensic investigation on a WordPress blog and share what you found with the group prior to investigating the hack into the clients blog.
Write a 2- to 3-page best practice document on tips for forensic investigations into a hack of a WordPress blog using screenshots of your test that does the following:
Step 1: Create a blog and blog posts.
- Create and document your creation of a new WordPress blog using this link:
- Create and document how you created at least 4 blog posts from at least 2 different devices.
- Delete at least 2 blog posts from at least 2 different devices.
Step 2: Investigate the blog.
- Describe how to acquire log files and any other helpful files, including the general query log.
- Create and document how to create a backup of the database.
- Perform a forensic investigation on the blog and its database, focusing on determining how to identify sources of new blogs, recovering deleted blogs, and identifying the source of a hack.
- List best practices for securing and auditing databases of blogs.
Cite any references to support your assignment.
Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

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