How To Lock Down Your WordPress Admin And Save Your Server Resources

Kumar Gauraw

Did you know that hackers may be trying to consume your server bandwidth and CPU resources at this very moment if you have a WordPress powered website?

lock down WordPress Admin - Protect your website and server resources

Do you have any mechanism to know that someone is trying to get into your website? Do you have any protection mechanism enabled?

You Might Have Heard Of BruteForce Attacks

A large botnet of more than 90,000 compromised servers has been attempting to break into WordPress websites (randomly) by continually trying to get into the WordPress admin dashboard using the default “admin” username and guessing passwords.

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Updated On October 27, 2014 In Blogging , , , , ,
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How To Secure Your WordPress Website And Block Spammers

Kumar Gauraw

Often we hear some or the other major site being hacked or a sensitive database being compromised somewhere. It is scary to imagine that your website can be hacked or somebody can steal it from you.

Protect Your WordPress Website From Hackers And Spammers

If you remember about the recent Brute Force Attacks on WordPress websites, it was pretty bad. We had discussed about tightening the security of your website at the time in following post:

But one of the things that is not so critical as hacking of your website or a brute force attack is the challenge of comments spammers who can get you frustrated pretty quickly. In fact, it can be very frustrating for you and a lot more resource consuming process for your web server.

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Updated On October 16, 2013 In Blogging , , , , , , ,
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How To Protect Your WordPress Website From Brute Force Attacks

Kumar Gauraw

Brute Force Attacks on WordPress Websites have caused a lot of pain to webmasters and web hosting companies in recent weeks. If you’re using WordPress to power your website, you may be vulnerable to a new web-based attack that aims to hack your admin password.

Protect Your WordPress Websites From Brute Force Attacks

The good news is you can do something about it. You can tighten your WordPress security to counter these attacks. But first, let’s understand these attacks a little better.

What Are Brute Force Attacks?

Brute Force Attacks are targeted to hack your WordPress Admin Dashboard.  These attacks specifically target your WordPress website’s wp-login.php from a large number of IP addresses spread geographically around the world.

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Updated On June 15, 2013 In Blogging , , , , , , , , , ,
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