Login Lockdown! Keep Wordpress Safe.
Michael VanDeMar of Bad Neighborhood blog brings us a new plugin to keep our hackers from login into word press. Login Lockdown will monitor how many times a person tries to log in during a short period of time (say 5 times in 3 minutes). If they exceed some key number, LogInLock down will lock them out from logging for some period of time; the default is one hour. Times and number of tries are adjustable.
Because I write a one person blog and rarely travel, I’m going to continue to protect by limiting access to those using my ISP using .htaccess. But I’ll be testing out the Log In Lock Down in parallel.
One additional feature I might suggest Michael add is automatically sending emails to the blog owner when someone does try to log in too often. The email would alert users to hacking attempts; it might be nice to know about those. Then we might be able to take measures to identify the hackers IP and block them.
Do use something to protect you blog!
If you haven’t protected through .htaccess, you should strongly consider installing this new plugin now. It sounds like just the thing for many bloggers.
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Login Lockdown! Keep Wordpress Safe. was posted on August 29, 2007 - Filed Under Plugins WordPress |Blog Security: htaccess block
Reading Matt Cutts blog, I got a chuckle when I read a blog security tip I’d been using at my knitting blog for two years. Evidently, the tips is news to SEO blogging types? 
(Which maybe means if you get your security tips from knitting blogs, you an avoid getting hacked the way Greywolf was in January of 2007?)
Anyway, since I know this can happen to anyone, I’m going to describe what the hackers do, and then describe two things you can do to increase security against these hacking attempts.
One will require you to deal with ‘.htaccess’ manually, but results in the most convenient set up while working at home. The other involves using a brand new plugin available at Ask Apache. That plugin is almost perfect. However, it could be improved. Because I got an error when trying to leave comments at “Ask Apache”, I’m going to suggest improvements to the plugin. (The developer asked!)
If he or she takes the suggestions to heart, this will be a truly awesome plugin. (It’s already very useful.)
So, now onto the meat of the article.
What do hackers do?
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