ezwebgallery.org under “attack”
Posted by XtoF at August 22nd, 2014
Yesterday evening someone controlling a small botnet tried to login on the admin account of the WordPress running this website (ezwebgallery.org). A lot of failed login attempts took place during this period, trying various accounts such as “admin” or “ezwebgallery”. Likely using some brute force attack or some kind of dictionary,
Failed login attempts reports
Fortunately, I follow my own advice and the passwords the attacker were after are quite long and truly random. So I don’t believe my passwords can be guessed that way.
Furthermore, in order to minimize the load on my server, IP address are blocked after a few failed attempts, which won’t help the brute force attacker 😉
By the way, Arstechnica published an excellent guide on how to easily increase the security of your WordPress. A must read!
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