Global Attacks On Wordpress Domains
There's an uptick of 'brute force' attacks currently globally on wordpress domains. Time to secure your servers and wordpress applications!From...
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Scary isn't it. I had an email from POWWEB too (used to host with them until the end of 2011 when all my sites got hacked), now with Hostgator. So far the BulletproofSecurity plugin seems to have...
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I got an email from the Wordfence security plugin...which I LOVE :) Most of my attacks were 3 days and 7 hours ago.......mostly from Chicago, and Turkey, but a whole lot of other places too. I have...
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Here is the email I got from Wordfence: I just completed everything on it :) Dear WordPress Publisher, If you would like to stop receiving WordPress security alerts and product updates from Wordfence,...
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Kathy, I take 'throttled' to mean choked, like putting your hands around someone's neck and choking them....bringing the vision of cutting off their breath, and possibly killing them. I'd be a little...
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Deb....I had changed my login attempt before, but one of my sites is getting way more attempts than the other ones, so I went and changed mine to 3 attempts in 5 minutes :) Then I locked them out for...
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Limit Login sounds useful, I haven't used that, but I guess the saving grace with Wordpress is that it's so slow, any attempt to persistantly log in would take a long time. I did get logs from several...
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Fingers crossed for all of us! I'm afraid I would have just chucked all of them Poddys, if that had happened to me. I'm not that knowledgeable about fixing things in wordpress.I don't understand why...
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Well the back end (Admin screens) are sometimes slow, but the rest works ok. When I was hacked I had already purchased by Hostgator account, so I saved all my data from the old sites, made sure it was...
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Goodness - am I glad I just moved over to a host that has WordPress security as a top priority :)
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It definitely pays to get a good host if you can afford one, and in any case to make your sites as secure as possible.
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Check my latest blog post about how to change admin to something else without going into the database... Http://katinkahesselink.nl / writing from tablet, forgive my spelling and grammar....
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Just re-read this thread and I am very pleased to say that my sites stayed safe!!!! Now I don't spend hardly any time checking to see the hack attempts because I know that my plugin works :)
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I installed the limit login plugin some weeks ago and keep getting messages about failed logins. Stupid people, what good is it for them to hack a site? I don't get it. The friend that gave me the...
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hmommers wrote:I installed the limit login plugin some weeks ago and keep getting messages about failed logins. Stupid people, what good is it for them to hack a site? I don't get it. The friend that...
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The latest version of Bulletproof Security has login lockouts, and I have seen a handful of accounts on one of my sites get locked in the last few days. Most of them have email addresses in China or...
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I work from home now but I used to manage mainframes and servers for the Navy and the state of Texas. It was so ingrained in me to never write down usernames and passwords. I'm embarrassed to admit...
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