[wp-forums] host vs. WP issues

[Mika A Epstein]

So yeah, it's totally the same thing. WP's getting hammered.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/patching-the-internet-fixing-the-wordpress-br

I've done the ModSecurity fix, and it seems to be holding, but after 
this, it's almost looking like we should all be blocking wp-login via 
.htaccess and whitelisting access to it. *siiigh*

Merci Javier wrote:
>
> related:
> http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-wordpress-brute-force-flood
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:32 PM, esmi at quirm dot 
> net<esmi at quirm.net>wrote:
>
>>
>> on 11/04/2013 19:46 Mika A Epstein said the following:
>>
>>>
>>> That sounds like the reason LiquidWeb invoked this earlier this week :
>>> http://kb.liquidweb.com/**wordpress-modsecurity-rules/<http://kb.liquidweb.com/wordpress-modsecurity-rules/>
>>>
>>
>> GoDaddy have now admitted that they have a system wide issue:<
>> http://support.godaddy.com/**system-alerts/<http://support.godaddy.com/system-alerts/>
>>
>> Mel
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