by Dave Mroz | Feb 11, 2014 | Security
At about 11:00 am this morning (2/10/2014) the guys over at Wordfence.com reported a HUGE distributed brute-force hacking attack on WordPress sites around the world. This time the traffic wasn’t just from Kyivstar, but from random ISPs and countries around the...
by Dave Mroz | Feb 10, 2014 | Security, WordPress
WordPress will tell you that usernames cant be changed, but fortunately there is an easy way to do this. What we’re going to do is simply create a new account and swap it with the old one. It’s worth noting that there are a few plugins that will automate...
by Dave Mroz | Jan 16, 2014 | Security, WordPress
Recently we had a rash of brute-force hacking attempts on a variety of WordPress sites that we manage. The commonality in the attacks is that they all originated from the Ukraine – more specifically they all came from the Kyivstar ISP. A user with IP address...
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