Brute force attacks - how do you avoid
Published on December 12, 2015
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Dear Marketers -
How do you protect from brute force attacks by robots?
I have a security plugin which says one of my WA site at wp-login is getting into brute force attack.
I know WA is secure I need not worry. Having known that I get these messages I want to learn more on this so that I can take actions:
I learnt that:
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1. I can change user name from ‘admin’ to some thing else - this is a risk mitigation !
2. I can move my login directory to a secret folder so that bots don’t find it.
I tried them at WA, but pluggings are not working. It is easier done when I have access to C-panel, which we don’t at WA.
That said, I have choices:
Trust WA security and know that bots are AFTER You, Ignore.
OR
DO something...
What would you do?
~Sridhar Rayasam
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