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Subject: Wordpress installs under attack
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:55:05 -0500
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Found this on slashdot:

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/04/12/1940248/wordpress-sites-under-wide-scale-brute-force-attack

I noticed the same thing ... but I've got my sites protected with fail2ban, so that if more than 5 bad passwords are tried on my site, the IP of the requester is blocked by the firewall.

david

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