Word Press under attack

[AndyD]

I actually wondered if this could be linked to the spamhaus attack that's been going on and I agree that hitting Wordpress servers would have a higher sucess rate that most.

[Mitos]

The info I read up on this is that WordPress sites with the "Admin" user login name selected is most likely to be hit!

[solweb]

The info I read up on this is that WordPress sites with the "Admin" user login name selected is most likely to be hit!

Using Admin as the user name already makes your friendly neighbourhood hacker's job easier - now he only has to figure out the password - like "God" or "1234"

Use a Password Manager to generate passwords http://www.keepassx.org/ and use differant user names for differant projects

[Hermes14]

Is there a way to block anyone using an anonymizer for visiting your site?

[Dave A]

Yeah - with IP blocking. The trouble is any IP list of non-transparent proxies will get out of date in no time (and abusers of anonymous browsing are on the bleeding edge, of course).

What platform are you using?
Why do you want to block them? (ie what nuisance are they causing?)

Knowing that might jut help me make a more useful suggestion. There are many ways to skin a cat.

[Mark Atkinson]

Here you go guys:

http://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress-security/

Enjoy.

[sterne.law@gmail.com]

Cyberwarfare is the new threat. New may not be quite the correct word, it dates some years.
Countries have established cyber war agencies. The threat is a foreign (readcenemy) state debilitating a countries infra structure, be it banking, government domains etc, etc