{"id":3717,"date":"2013-05-01T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T05:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuclearrambo.com\/wordpress\/?p=3717"},"modified":"2023-04-18T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T18:33:37","slug":"how-to-protect-your-website-from-wordpress-brute-force-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuclearrambo.com\/wordpress\/how-to-protect-your-website-from-wordpress-brute-force-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your website from WordPress brute force attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brute force is a method of invading login systems by trying out a variety of possible password combinations assuming that one of the combination will unlock the system. The brute force attack is one of the attack which takes a lot of CPU and bandwidth usage especially when it is being conducted on a website.<\/p>\n

Recently an organized brute force attack was conducted on several wordpress websites. The wordpress brute force attack was very large in nature and is still continuing till this day.<\/p>\n

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Protect your wordpress site against the wordpress brute force attack<\/h2>\n

The brute force definitely tries to hack into your administration dashboard. the default directory for admin dashboard is \/wp-admin<\/p>\n

One way to prevent the wordpress brute force attack is to change the wp-admin directory to something else e.g. \/dashboardsecretnamehere<\/p>\n

Now, add another layer of security by installing this small wordpress plugin called “Limit Login attempts”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After installing the plugin you can change the default settings according to your needs. The plugin settings are pretty simple.<\/p>\n

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WordPress Limit login attempts to prevent brute force attacks<\/p><\/div>\n

Below you can see the plugin in action. It was able to block several IP addresses trying to login to my admin account.<\/p>\n

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WordPress Limit login attempts plugin in action<\/p><\/div>\n

Everytime someone tries to hack into my system or exceeds the login attemps I get an email from the blog alerting me to monitor the IP address.<\/p>\n

I hope you found this article helpful.<\/p>\n

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