Title: Login Security Options
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Login Security Options

 *  Resolved [matt19](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt19/)
 * (@matt19)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-security-options-1/)
 * Hello,
 * We’ve had a lot of attacks on some of our sites. All trying to login into our
   site using the “admin” username which doesn’t exist. We’ve been using the option
   of “Immediately block the IP of users who try to sign in as these usernames” 
   We have “admin” in this list among others but we’re still getting alerts telling
   us that someone is failing to login in under username “admin”
 * Any assist will be greatly appreciated. 🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/)

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 *  [WFBrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfbrian/)
 * (@wfbrian)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/login-security-options-1/#post-6721800)
 * Hi,
 * When an IP breaks a rule, for example trying to login with the username ‘admin’,
   the IP is blocked from accessing your site for the time you have set in your 
   firewall rules. The default time is a 5 minute block. That keeps the IP from 
   accessing your site for 5 minutes but doesn’t prevent another IP from coming 
   along and using the username ‘admin’. When another user comes along using ‘admin’,
   they will then be blocked for 5 minutes and so on. In short, an attempt at logging
   in with ‘admin’ must be made before the rule is actually broken and that is why
   you get an alert when someone fails to login with ‘admin’.
 * [http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#How_long_is_an_IP_address_blocked_when_it_breaks_a_rule](http://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#How_long_is_an_IP_address_blocked_when_it_breaks_a_rule)
 * Hope that helps. Let us know if you have any other questions.
    -Brian

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