Drastically reduce the chance of a successful brute force attack on your Wordpress installation’s “admin” account
January 13th, 2010 | No commentsNot too long ago there was a Wordpress exploit running around – the gist was someone was doing brute force attacks on login pages using the default administrator account. The problem, generalized, is that the default administrator account within Wordpress is set to “admin” and cannot be changed – all a hacker has to [...]
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Tags: administrator, brute force attacks, hackers, risk mitigation, username, Wordpress |
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