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How To Protect Your Wordpress Site From Trending Hacking Attack by inpeace: 11:24am On Jun 27, 2013 |
Recently, millions of self hosted WordPress installations on virtually every major host in the world, were targeted by a huge bot network (having over 90,000 IPs) with the sole aim of brute hacking the installations to gain admin access by using the common default “admin” username and multiple passwords Last year and a half taught us that WordPress security should not be taken lightly by any means. Between 15% and 20% of the world’s high traffic sites are powered by WordPress. The fact that it is an Open Source platform and everybody has access to its Source Code makes it a tempting prey for hackers. Interestingly, at least 2 of the IP addresses used heavily in the attacks trace back to Nigeria, the more prominent one of the two being 41.203.67.53 which is the shared IP used by most of Globacom Nigeria’s internet users and also 41.206.1.5 which formerly belonged to VGC Communications which MTN Nigeria bought in 2007 and now uses to power its fixed lines and WIMAX (hynet) services. In both cases, it is likely that the attacks were carried out via remotely triggered malware on customers or the company machines. Most attacks are coming from Bangladesh, Russia, Germany, Poland and India including, but not limited to: SQL Injections Clickjacking Cloaking Blackhole Exploit Kit attacks Password and Login brake efforts Truth is, if a capable master of the script targets your site, there is really no way to prevent an intrusion. What you are about to read below are some precautionary actions you can take to quickly minimize the risk to an acceptable level. If your WordPress site is well protected chances are a hacker would prefer picking another, easier victim. Starting with the more obvious ones: http://www.sealworld.com.ng/blog/web-design-hosting/how-protect-your-wordpress-site-trending-hacking-attack
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Re: How To Protect Your Wordpress Site From Trending Hacking Attack by inpeace: 7:45pm On Jun 27, 2013 |
lets discuss this |
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