Thwarting Hackers
I've been so focused on building profitable websites that I had not been thinking much about security. One day, while searching for a particular plug-in, I stumbled onto "Limit Login Attempts" WP plug-in. Basically, you can set your site to prevent someone trying to hack into your site by limiting attempts to log on. I decided to go with tight settings to see if, and how frequently, attempts were being made to log on.
Ugh! Within one week, on 5 sites, I had about 12 lock-outs!
Since then, I've battened down the hatches and added two additional plug-ins: "Bad Behavior" (protects against robo-hacking -- one site prevented 17 attempts in one week) and "IP Filter" where you can list offending IP addresses and deny them access to the log on page altogether.
It was a rude awakening but I'm glad it happened since it raised my awareness to protect my assets. If anyone else has further recommendations for security plug-ins, please share your resource.
Ugh! Within one week, on 5 sites, I had about 12 lock-outs!
Since then, I've battened down the hatches and added two additional plug-ins: "Bad Behavior" (protects against robo-hacking -- one site prevented 17 attempts in one week) and "IP Filter" where you can list offending IP addresses and deny them access to the log on page altogether.
It was a rude awakening but I'm glad it happened since it raised my awareness to protect my assets. If anyone else has further recommendations for security plug-ins, please share your resource.
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