[lug] web site advice needed

Jed S. Baer blug at jbaer.cotse.net
Thu Sep 12 15:50:32 MDT 2013


On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 09:59:27 -0600
George S. wrote:

> After I figured out what the problem was, I secured the 
> wp-login.php page with an IP Address restriction. Another way would
> have been to require basic authentication for the page and wp-admin.
> This week, I'm seeing 1700 attempts for this hack.  If I didn't have
> the page secured, I'm sure I would be seeing 10's or 100's of thousands.
> 
> If you're running wordpress, you should look at your logs for post 
> requests to wp-login.php.

Doesn't the bad-behavior plugin help this quite a bit? Is it still even
available?


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