Login Lockdown! Keep Wordpress Safe.

Michael VanDeMar of Bad Neighborhood blog brings us a new plugin to keep our hackers from login into word press. Login Lockdown will monitor how many times a person tries to log in during a short period of time (say 5 times in 3 minutes). If they exceed some key number, LogInLock down will lock them out from logging for some period of time; the default is one hour. Times and number of tries are adjustable.

Because I write a one person blog and rarely travel, I’m going to continue to protect by limiting access to those using my ISP using .htaccess. But I’ll be testing out the Log In Lock Down in parallel.

One additional feature I might suggest Michael add is automatically sending emails to the blog owner when someone does try to log in too often. The email would alert users to hacking attempts; it might be nice to know about those. Then we might be able to take measures to identify the hackers IP and block them.

Do use something to protect you blog!

If you haven’t protected through .htaccess, you should strongly consider installing this new plugin now. It sounds like just the thing for many bloggers. Tags:defacing blog hacking plugins WordPress