Comments on: Why you should limit login attempts

By: Piyush Shekhar

Piyush Shekhar — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:55:40 +0000

By: level9

level9 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:19:38 +0000

I had the same issue from 213.155.4.184 hitting me 3,500 times. CPanel also shows this, and allows you to block ips or ip ranges.

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RSS Week #62: letture per il weekend - Matteo Moro — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:33:26 +0000

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By: Vincent Chow

Vincent Chow — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:10:30 +0000

Guess what? The same guy from the same IP is trying to get into my WordPress too. Detected after installing this plugin.

By: Adam Pieniazek

Adam Pieniazek — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:41:58 +0000

Add this line to your theme’s functions.php file to hide login error messages:

add_filter(‘login_errors’,create_function(‘$a’, “return null;”));

That way they can’t tell if they got the username or password (or both) wrong.

By: johnbillion

johnbillion — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:14:36 +0000

Login Lockdown is in my list of standard plugins to use on every WP install. Very similar functionality to Limit Login Attempts from the looks of things.

By: johnbillion

johnbillion — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 01:09:29 +0000

You block entire countries from accessing your website because you have some problems with crackers and spammers?

Nothing on my website is “aimed at those countries” either, but I would never dream of such drastic and completely unnecessary measures. You seriously need to re-evaluate your approach there Robert.

By: fkb

fkb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:24:22 +0000

IP Tried to log in as
213.155.4.184 admin (1 lockout)

Same IP at my site. Good i’ve installed Limit Login Attempts when i’ve saw this post.

Thank you Donncha

By: Melayu Boleh

Melayu Boleh — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:08:43 +0000

wow! that is very dangerous.
Have to install the plugin immediately to all my wp blog.
thanks for the alert.

By: David Chapet

David Chapet — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:24:10 +0000

It is incredible: today, my blog Journal de Cuba (in french) had been victim of the same attack and by the same IP !!! This idiot from Namibia did 593 unsuccessful attemps to login. This morning I install the plugin, thank you Donncha for the tips.