As you may or may not have heard, there have been several instances of distributed brute force login attacks on WordPress sites over the past few months. In late 2012, wordpress.com saw a distributed attack in this fashion, and just over the last few days a variety of hosting providers saw a similar attack waged…
Security is one of the biggest factors working against WordPress right now, but it doesn't have to be. It's easy to achieve a secure WordPress install if you start off on the right foot. Luckily for you, I have three simple instructions to get you rolling in the right direction: Achieve a Secure WordPress Install by Installing…
Brute Force Wordpress attacks are probably one of the oldest internet tricks in the book. Basically these attacks are performed by bots (or people) who have special scripts running that are usually hooked up to some sort of "Common Password Dictionary" where it will try hundreds of combinations of words and numbers automatically until it figures out…
