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The state of the systems we use in our day to day lives, typically outside our place of business, is ours to use and abuse as we see fit. As such, we are also responsible for the security of said systems, and one of the oft overlooked is WordPress. The WordPress application is used by many SOHO users, and is as vulnerable to attack as anything out there today. WordPress can be be secured, and with a bit of effort and guidance, fairly easily. The WordPress.Org site has a great hardening guide for WordPress that covers most of the aspects of security and bringing it to their application. http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
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Tony 150 Posts ISC Handler |
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My web server logs have seen a large uptick lately in what I assume are either WordPress attack attempts or WordPress enumeration scans.
184.107.243.218 - - [18/Jun/2014:14:48:21 -0600] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 277 212.227.119.139 - - [18/Jun/2014:14:57:12 -0600] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 277 50.87.144.147 - - [18/Jun/2014:15:06:07 -0600] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 277 200.234.196.228 - - [18/Jun/2014:17:42:11 -0600] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 277 46.249.202.200 - - [18/Jun/2014:17:50:33 -0600] "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/1.1" 404 277 And the hosting companies don't seem to understand or care.... Here is one response I received from Tyler at Handy Networks when I reported it... ------ Hello, A single hit to a page leads me to believe that this host is not compromised. Please provide more evidence of such behavior so that I may investigate. For now, I'm marking this ticket resolved. Thanks, |
K-Dee 63 Posts |
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Jun 19th 2014 5 years ago |
Quoting K-Dee:My web server logs have seen a large uptick lately in what I assume are either WordPress attack attempts or WordPress enumeration scans. There's not much that they can do about it. I personally do a 301 redirect to a port I have a TCP tarpit running on. A slightly more aggressive response would be to note the IP address and update the firewall to direct *all* traffic from that IP to a TCP tarpit port. You might have to put up a fake wp-login.php page to get them to bite and try a second connection to get tarpitted... Of course, this all depends on how much control you have over your website host system. |
John Hardin 62 Posts |
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Jun 19th 2014 5 years ago |
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I've been very pleased with features and functionality of the plugin: All In One WP Security
I agree, though, that all is for naught if my hosting company fails to apply appropriate and prompt updates and patches. |
T 31 Posts |
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