You Must Have a Security Plugin for WordPress
Published on November 2, 2014
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Over the last 36 hours I have received over 14 emails like the one below that come from WordPress iThemes Security Plugin. Over the last few weeks I have been working on SEO keywords in posts for a one site in particular to see how the stats and page rank rise as opposed to a few different things I did in the past. As I am still digesting some of the data I have ranked well for a few keywords which of course raises the visibility. Yet, with that increase visibility comes the hackers.
As I have mentioned before a security plugin is the first I install and then of course a backup plugin. The first thing I do is change the user name and set the login attempts to lock out.
Each and every email like the one below the hacker used the user name "admin" which is the WordPress Installers default user name at setup.
Security Generated Email
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A user, admin, has been locked out of the WordPress site at http://www.workoutswithdumbbells.com due to too many bad login attempts.
The user has been locked out until 2014-11-02 05:28:05.
To release the lockout please visit the lockouts page.
*This email was generated automatically by iThemes Security. To change your email preferences please visit the plugin settings.
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Get a Security Plugin and change the user name.
Stay secure, Enjoy Success
-Kevin Wiley
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