It has been an harrowing few days for a good few of those out there who’ve embraced the WordPress CMS platform, and even those whose sites are hosted alongside such users, though for many the pain and headaches induced by some very organised and high-profile and sweeping bot attacks on their sites are something can be resisted with adherence to sound security principles. The BBC News website today even ran a story on what’s been going on, viewable here that shows the popularity of the WordPress platform really is running in synch with the desire of the bad folks out there to bring chaos, and no-doubt loss to profits/revenues, for many web publishers, producers and general content managers and bloggers alike.
I first got wind about the WordPress-specific nature of goings on mid-last week from a friend who runs a book forum, whose ISP had sent their customers out email information pertaining to high-volume denial-of-service style attacks related to WordPress. I’d noticed a fair increase in failed log-in attempts across a couple of my own sites, and luckily the WordFence security plug-in I utilise across those, coupled with (what I hope will remain – one never likes to tempt fate) strong usernames and passwords prevented any of the truly messy stuff. [click to continue…]
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