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Global WordPress Hack Attack

April 11, 2013 by Pat Fortino

Hostgator, a major web hosting company, posted a story today about a global hack attack on WordPress web sites. The attack attempts to gain access to the WordPress admin part of a site using brute force login attempts.

If you have a WordPress website, there are several things you can do to fight off this attack:

  • Make a backup of all of your WordPress website files and database and download it.
  • Change all WordPress Admin login passwords and use strong password construction; for example, more than 8 characters, upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. If you can remember your password, then it’s probably not strong enough.
  • Use .htaccess to password protect /wp-admin/wp-login.php
    Instructions for how to password protect wp-login.php
  • Install a WordPress security plugin. There are dozens; Better WP Security and BulletProof Security are very powerful and very popular.
  • Read Hardening WordPress article:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
  • Update WordPress and plugins to latest versions.

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