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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

Brute-force login attempt IP blocking

By cheesefather | October 30, 2011 - 7:55 pm |May 13, 2013 Linux
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I wanted to create a simple drop-in script to add brute-force attempt blocking by IP address to my PHP/MySQL login scripts. It should be pretty simple to use. It needs a database to run off, you enter the database values and call the script (see usage) before login and on… Continue reading →

Tagged ban, brute-force, ip, ip blocking, login, mysql, php, protection
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