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WordPress Distributed Botnet Attack Blocker

By cheesefather | April 29, 2013 - 3:15 pm |May 2, 2013 Linux, Windows
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After the recent global distributed botnet attack on WordPress installations that took down servers and broke into admin accounts, I thought I’d write a plugin to prevent it happening again. Distributed botnet attacks can come from multiple IP addresses and locations at the same time, so conventional IP-based lockouts are… Continue reading →

Tagged admin, attack, blocker, botnet, brute-force, centos, ddos, distributed, global, ip, lockout, login, plugin, security, wordpress, wp, wp-admin
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