Starting around April 11, 2013 Hostgator and a number of other hosting providers became aware of a brute force botnet attack against their servers and specifically targeting WordPress sites. What is a BotNet Attack? A botnet attack is an automated computer generated attack against a web server. This specific attack is enormous with security experts…
A very important step in securing a WordPress site is to remember not to use the name ‘admin’ for the administrator account. Many automatic installers for WordPress will create an admin user as the log in administrative user for the entire site. Because of this, hackers have half of their job already done when they’ve…