WordPress Vulnerability – A suggestion

Several posts have indicated that WordPress blogs are being hacked. The approach involves a process of guessing (via a program) at passwords.

Since this approach likely takes many attempts, a practical and easy to implement defense is to install the plugin “Limit login attempts.” Just search for this plugin. The plugin provides some useful info. It works by refusing to accept request from an IP after a specified (by you) number of unsuccessful attempts. It will store this IP and send an email if you like.