[wp-forums] WP attacks sticky?

[Mika A Epstein]

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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