[wp-forums] WP attacks sticky?

[Jennifer Roberts]

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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