"Brute Force Attacks" Posts

Our site, like many of our clients’ sites, features a WordPress blog.  Recently, we become aware that there are ongoing ‘brute force attacks’ aimed at a weakness in this platform, specifically, that WordPress allows unlimited sign-in attempts on the login page.  In this type of hacking, someone is running a program that utilizes a list of common passwords, words or letters and the bot cycles through them until gaining access.  It can run for hours, days, weeks or months.

HostGator, a major website hosting provider, reported last month that this is a well-organized, global attack on WordPress and that it …