Hmmmm.Hackers Enterprise at its "finest" ?

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Not sure exactly what to make of this, but here goes.........

It would appear that installing the Wordfence Plugin is paying off. I just received two email alerts from Wordfence, saying that : someone tried to log into my website, and was blocked by Wordfence, after apparently attempting to log on 20 times.

Here is the email alert that I got :

".............A user with IP address 54.183.140.242 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'admin'
User IP: 54.183.140.242
User hostname: ec2-54-183-140-242.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com..........."


I used Google's IP LookUp, to trace the IP address, and here is what I got :


General IP InformationIP:54.183.140.242Decimal:917998834Hostname:ec2-54-183-140-242.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.comASN:16509ISP:Amazon TechnologiesOrganization:Amazon.comServices:None detectedType:CorporateAssignment:Static IPBlacklist:Geolocation InformationContinent:North AmericaCountry:United States State/Region:CaliforniaCity:San JoseLatitude:37.3394 (37° 20′ 21.84″ N)Longitude:-121.895 (121° 53′ 42.00″ W)Postal Code:95103


I don't know whether to laugh, or be surprised (perhaps, both?)

I'd like to think that Amazon isn't trying to hack into my website. Which means, some wanker decided to test his luck )))))

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Well they were persistent, but it didn't pay off this time! I'll have to take a look at wordfence, I'm curious now.

Glad your security is working well

Yep, me too

Good to know Thanks for sharing

Making notes on this... Thanks.

Sure thing :)

Thanks for the heads up.I will be checking Wordfence out.

Absolutely :) You're welcome

You can be grateful you had Wordfence installed!

Thank you for sharing. I will make sure I install this.

You're most welcome :)

It's great you had that installed! That's great it worked for you
Hope it continues and you never have a hacker crack anything!
Sheila

Yep, hope so too, Sheila )))))

Hackers have been around for as long as the pc was invented. They got sophisticated and greedy. The best defense is awareness and wordfence is a good product to deter those nasty crooks. My humble opinion. :-)

Yep, Wordfence sure did its trick for me ))

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