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1. Hotmale
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hello,

   I have a security plug in and have taken other steps to secure my site. I occaisionally get these alerts:

   This notice is to inform you that someone at IP address 83.103.119.239 tried to login to your site "P**********" and failed.

   The targeted username was admin

   The IP address has been blocked for 60minutes.

   My question is what to do about that. Not in terms of my site but is there some way of objecting to the threat or would that just be a waste of time?

   Thanks

   MartinI

2. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Probably a waste of time but you never know.

   If you feel so inclined, you can try contacting the host provider for that IP address. Do a reverse lookup on that IP address will tell you the domain name of the network provider.

   Aside from that, there's really not much to be done.

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