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WordPress under attack – how to protect your site from the admin account hack.

14th April 2013 By Jax Blunt 8 Comments

There’s an Ars Technica article flying around right now about a massive attack on wordpress sites around the internet attempting to build a super botnet. The attack is working by targeting a particular user account that the vast majority of sites have, including this one. According to CloudFlare’s Prince, the distributed attacks are attempting to […]

Filed Under: Blogging, Newsflash Tagged With: admin account hack, security, wordpress

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