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  • Joseph Herbrandson on The Most Common Attacks Facing Today’s Websites

    Joseph Herbrandson on The Most Common Attacks Facing Today’s Websites

    Joseph Herbrandson of Sucuri published an excellent article listing the most common attacks today’s websites are facing. Herbrandson does a good job of explaining the attacks without inundating the reader with technical jargon. He also links to WordPress items that are relevant to each type of attack. I’ve spoken to Herbrandson at a few different…

    Jeff Chandler

  • A Closer Look At Brute Force Attacks Against WP Sites

    Perhaps one of the easiest attacks to perform on a WordPress based website is a brute force attack. Sucuri took the time to create a few different honeypots and monitored WP-Login.php to track the various IP addresses as well as the passwords used to break into the site. Their list of passwords attempted is no…

    Jeff Chandler