Denial of Service attack (DoS attack) or Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS attack) is an attempt to make a website unavailable to its intended users. It generally carried out to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend services of a host connected to the Internet.
According to a recent report, DDOS attack are on the rise. The bad news is DDOS prevention service are very expensive.
If you have websites & it is quite popular, you may already experience or may experience this kind of attack sometimes in the future.
There are 2 ways to get it for free.
- Sign up for Cloudflare. They manage to stop 100Gbps attack to Spamhous in March 2013.
- Sign up for LiteSpeed Anti-DDoS Proxy Service.
If you find another FREE anti-DDOS service. kindly leave it in the comment area.
Since early 2013, there are many large-scale WordPress brute force attacks coming from a large amount of IP addresses spread across the world. The attack targetting “wp-login.php” file in Wordpres’s installation.
The attack attempts to break into WordPress admin dashboard by continually trying to guess the username and password. It is a very good practice to have a very strong password which at least 8 characters and includes small letters, capital letters & special characters.
The botnet attack is mainly targeting this default username, which is “admin.” So change the administrator username could significantly reduce the likelihood of your site being successfully logged into by a malicious user.
WordPress doesn’t allow to change username in the dashboard, so you have to change it from MySQL database.
To change, log in to phpMyAdmin or any other program that allows you to modify MySQL data.
Select the Approprite database → Browse to “wp-users” table → Look for “user_login” column → Select the Administrator username → Change to New Username → Save Database
Use your new username to log into your WordPress dashboard.
