[wp-forums] WP attacks sticky?

[Christine Rondeau]

It's great, reads very well and offers lots of advice and tips.

**Christine Rondeau
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Jennifer Roberts <wpyogimail at gmail.com>wrote:

> Look good to me - it'll be helpful on the forums - thank you : ) !  Maybe
> bold the "This sort of attack is not endemic to WordPress." - or put
> something along those lines in the sticky post?   Yesterday we had so many
> people insisting it was WP or their hosts were telling them that - not
> happening so much now that it's clear what's going on, but still might help.
>
> Jennifer
>
> On Apr 12, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Mika A Epstein wrote:
>
> > Okay, I wrote this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks
> >
> > Suggestions? Edits? Jump in and fix. When we feel happy, we can sticky
> it in the forums :)
> >
> > Mika A Epstein wrote:
> >>
> >> Amusingly the one I was reading was about comment spam, so no, not a
> >> good one.
> >>
> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress should have a link to
> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/Brute_Force_Attacks and ... well I guess I
> >> know what I'm writing this morning!
> >>
> >> Otto wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Which codex article?
> >>>
> >>> Also, I'm seeing a lot of people around the web in general this
> >>> morning who don't seem to understand what "brute force" means and a
> >>> lot of misunderstanding in thinking that this is a WP flaw or some
> >>> such. A codex article that explains a) brute force, and b) this is why
> >>> it's a good idea to use good passwords, might be a good resource to
> >>> point people to.
> >>>
> >>> -Otto
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Mika Epstein<ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm really torn on this, especially once I found out that the
> >>>> directions I posted on my site were being semi-circumvented... Like
> >>>> I have reports that the botnet is now only attacking a couple times
> >>>> per IP, which is outright horrifying. The numbers are psycho (though
> >>>> its not just focused in WP right now, Joomla got nailed too).
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, we have a post:
> >>>>
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/global-wordpress-attacks-modlook?replies=2
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I think it would be better to beef the codex article and make a
> >>>> sticky linking to that instead. Anyone up for it?
> >>>>
> >>>> On Apr 12, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Mark Ratledge<mark at markratledge.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do we need a sticky in How-To and Troubleshooting about the WP
> >>>>> attacks? re:
> >>>>>
> http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -- Mark
> >>>>>
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