Tag: bruteforce

  • Large Bruteforce Attack Against WordPress Sites Starting To Subside

    Large Bruteforce Attack Against WordPress Sites Starting To Subside

    Security company Wordfence is reporting that the large distributed brute force attack on WordPress sites is starting to subside. On the morning of February 10th, employees noticed a large increase in the volume of attacks. Their real-time activity map was showing so much activity, they had to throttle the amount of data displayed. I asked…

  • BruteProtect – Protecting Against Brute Force Attacks

    I recently received a hat tip from a happy user of the BruteProtect plugin and decided to give it a try myself. The only configuration that is necessary for BruteProtect is to apply a free API key to communicate with the service. If you’re using the Limit Login Attempts plugin to block unsuccessful login attempts,…