A while back I posted about 5 things you need to do with a fresh WordPress install. One of the things was to change your administrator username and to be creative. If you use admin for your username you may want to change that, why? Well, check out the following over the period of a week:
| IP | Tried to log in as |
|---|---|
| 78.178.189.113 | admin (2 lockouts) |
| 109.236.81.43 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 109.236.81.223 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 88.243.137.180 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 121.204.24.75 | siphilp (1 lockout) |
| 88.243.64.211 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 31.3.252.196 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 188.143.233.30 | admin (3 lockouts) |
| 78.178.137.171 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 78.178.148.102 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 78.178.161.98 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 89.176.114.151 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 78.181.95.193 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 91.224.160.135 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 95.8.39.167 | admin (1 lockout) |
| 173.161.255.116 | admin (2 lockouts) |
| 59.61.150.123 | siphilp (1 lockout) |
Website/Blog security should be taken seriously. It’s quite interesting that a couple of sites i use have taken Google Authenticator on-board providing another layer of protection. What’s good is that someone has made it into a WordPress plugin : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-authenticator/.
