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Major brute force attack against WordPress underway


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A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling through different usernames and passwords.

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http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/32269-major-brute-force-attack/

http://thehackernews.com/2013/04/massive-brute-force-attack-targets.html

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Therefore, we have joined other major web hosting providers by advising all our clients who use WordPress to install an additional plugin 'Limit Login Attempts' that will help to prevent brute force attacks.

We have it build in. Thanks Ryan.

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