How to Protect Your WordPress From Attack

An ongoing brute-force attack on WordPress-based websites has compromised more than 90,000 blogs, but there are simple ways to make sure your blog won't be next to fall.

Brute-force attacks, as their name would suggest, are some of the least sophisticated hacks out there, rapidly cycling through common directory names, passwords and IP addresses in order to access private files through sheer dumb luck.

Given how many websites and blogs have fallen victim to the WordPress attack, the Menifee, Calif., security firm Sucuri wanted to find just how many brute-force attacks against the WordPress platform occurred on a daily basis, and how effective they were. Read more...