Title: Brute force attack
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Brute force attack

 *  [isreehari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isreehari/)
 * (@isreehari)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-10/)
 * Hi,
    I have quick question that my web site is getting lot of brute force attacks.
   Now I decided to replace the wp-login.php with custom login page. In the cutom
   login page I used WordPress social login option such login with facebook, google,
   yahoo, windows. Now my question with this new modifications can I stop the brute
   force attacks or do I need to block some other settings.
 * Thanks,
    Hari

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 *  [juggledad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/juggledad/)
 * (@juggledad)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attack-10/#post-6866560)
 * Brute force attacks are a fact of life. Because so many computers around the 
   world have been compromised, these ‘zombie’ computers are out there going after
   one site after another.
 * If you limit the amount of people who can login, then you could use some code
   in your .htaccess file to only allow use of wp-login.php from a certian IP

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