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Wordpress sites worldwide experience brute force attack

WordPress sites experience attacks

Users advised to change usernames, add security measures

MeanIT Web ProtectionTechLife | 12 Apr 2013: A large botnet is trying to gain access to WordPress blogs as part of a significant brute force attack being experienced by hosting companies all over the world.
The current attack assumes websites have the simple username ‘admin’ and is logging in repeatedly.

Peter Armstrong, MD of Spiral Hosting said: “There is currently a large scale brute force attack coming from a large number of IP addresses spread across the world. A large botnet has been attempting to break into WordPress websites by continually trying to guess the username and password to get into the WordPress admin dashboard. This is affecting almost every major web hosting company around the world. Our Network Operations Centre (NOC) has detected a significant increase in botnet activity in the last 24 hours.”

WordPress users can protect themselves from such attacks by using strong passwords using numbers and special characters, not using ‘admin’ as a username and installing additional measures to ensure their websites can’t be accessed via password alone. It is also recommended that any unused plug-ins or themes be deleted and the software itself be kept up to date. Hopefully no more WordPress sites experience attacks like this but you can never be too safe.

TechCentral Reporters

https://www.techcentral.ie/21332/wordpress-sites-worldwide-experience-brute-force-attack

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Written by Michael MacGinty

Michael is a well known speaker, author and coach on how to use the web to grow a business. He is also WP Elevation certified as a Digital Business Consultant.
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