Blocking a WordPress XML-RPC attack with the Linux kernel firewall.
One of our customers faced a large attack against his WordPress blog xmlrpc.php script. When I connected to his server, the CPU load was over 100.…
Tag: Brute-force attack
WordPress brute-force attack detection plugins comparison (2015 edition).
Following our 2013 benchmarks, we received quite a lot of requests to perform new ones and, this time, to include a category of plugins that wasn’t…
Many popular WordPress security plugins vulnerable to IP spoofing.
A WordPress user who was facing a small brute-force attack asked us for help. He was using a popular security plugin but, this time, his plugin…
WordPress brute-force attack protection in a production environment.
Following the benchmark tests that we published last year, this article will focus on NinjaFirewall in a production environment, facing two real brute-force attacks. The victim It…
WordPress brute-force attack detection plugins comparison.
Update: We released a new set of benchmarks in October 2015. Two benchmark tests will be performed against the 5 most popular security plugins whose description…