{"id":1336,"date":"2023-05-03T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2023-05-03T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:37:23","slug":"brute-force-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/brute-force-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brute-force Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been bombarded as of late with a huge number of email alerts from my security plugin about blocked attempts to login. Fortunately, I have a decently cryptic password, the admin account is disabled and 2FA as well. So there haven&#8217;t been any successful ones, plus the plugin was banning user after 3 unsuccessful attempts. However the deluge of alerts was becoming annoying so I looked into the attacks a bit more, installed a fail2ban plugin for WordPress and disabled the xml-rpc function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopefully that should quiet things down. We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been bombarded as of late with a huge number of email alerts from my security plugin about blocked attempts to login. Fortunately, I have a decently cryptic password, the admin account is disabled and 2FA as well. So there haven&#8217;t been any successful ones, plus the plugin was banning user after 3 unsuccessful attempts&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/brute-force-attacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Brute-force Attacks&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvgrafx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}