[wp-forums] WP attacks sticky?

[Mika A Epstein]

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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