creese Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 http://bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2013/04/10/wordpress-brute-force-login-attacks-stepped-up/ 2
synaesthesia Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 We had our Joomla site massively attacked with this a fortnight ago Took it down that day; luckily my colleague is a website dab-hand and knocked up a replacement from scratch in a day!
creese Posted April 12, 2013 Author Posted April 12, 2013 I have had constant attacks on my sites recently. They are pretty much locked down and have all survived. Although I was locked out myself by the ISP for most of a day.
Arthur Posted April 13, 2013 Posted April 13, 2013 This doesn't sound good... Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet « Ars Technica With so much at stake, readers who run WordPress sites are strongly advised to lock down their servers immediately. The effort may not only protect the security of the individual site. It could help safeguard the Internet as a whole. 2
ianniow Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 If you have not seen this already this site is worth it for fixing hacked joomla sites and checking the security before thay get hacked myJoomla, Security and Management Tools for Joomla | myJoomla is a suite of tools to make your Joomla experience safer, secure, and enjoyable
creese Posted April 15, 2013 Author Posted April 15, 2013 I had only just put Worpress security on and was bombarded with lockouts. I thought it was normal, I'm down to an occasional lockout now. I use Better WP Security.
MordyT Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 I installed the Google authenticator plugin and now have free 2 factor logon. Be hard to brute force that....
austin_morgan Posted April 22, 2013 Posted April 22, 2013 Hi All, I am a bit new to the forum but had a query, the hacks that happen do they happen only with specific companies like last year my sites were into trouble hosted with Godaddy. They were facing outage due to their stand on the IP Act related to piracy. They are one of the biggest in terms of hosting across the globe but still couldnt tackle the issue and my sites were down for like 3-4 days. Austin
creese Posted April 23, 2013 Author Posted April 23, 2013 From what I understand, this time it was at all Wordpress sites. My sites were never down, I was just locked out of admin.
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