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Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Brute Force AttackVery helpful and very professional Matthew – thank you once again.
Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Brute Force AttackThank you Matthew for following up with the location of where to change the login URL – I will certainly keep this information for future reference.
At this stage, it would appear that creating a new username with admin rights and then deleting my original username has done the trick – the attacks have stopped. Yippee!Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Brute Force AttackHi again Matthew,
Thank you for your extra tip.
My hope that the hackers had given up and gone away was short lived as it started again this morning…..argh!
I struggled to find where to change the login URL but I was given another tip which I have followed and hopefully it will prevent future hacking attempts.
For anyone who has the same issue, maybe the following will help:-
Change Username = you cannot change the existing username – however, there is a workaround!
1. You need to create a new user with admin rights
2. Log out of the old admin account
3. Log into the new admin account
4. Delete the original admin accountForum: Hacks
In reply to: Brute Force AttackHi Matthew
Thank you for your feedback and information – I really appreciate it.
I checked the areas you mentioned:
1. My login area is protected from brute force attacks (I did that when I first set up my website). I’m not sure how many times it takes for them to be locked out forever, but it would seem that the attacks have stopped (after 4 days…..). Fingers crossed.
2. The admin user has been renamed (I also did that when I first set up my website).
3. I didn’t want to turn the notifications off because I wanted to know when they were trying & when they stopped, plus because they had my username (which I can’t change) and they were being locked out, so was I so I couldn’t access my own website – argh…..
So, thanks a bunch again for your help – hopefully because the password was so strong, they have given up and gone away!
KymForum: Hacks
In reply to: Brute Force AttackHi there,
It would appear that my website is under attack.
I have had 63 of the following notifications (so far) since Monday morning.
Dear Site Admin,
A user, xxxxxxxx, has been locked out of the WordPress site at http://xxxx.com.au due to too many bad login attempts.
The user has been locked out until 2014-08-20 11:53:27.
To release the lockout please visit the lockouts page.
*This email was generated automatically by iThemes Security. To change your email preferences please visit the plugin settings.I think I have as much security in place as possible but maybe I’m missing something….
Does anyone know how to stop/find whoever it is trying to hack my website.
Kym
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 404 Not Found errorHi everyone,
Apologies for not coming back to you sooner.
Thank you all for your feedback.
It turns out the issue was that I had changed Service Providers and hadn’t changed the Domain Name Servers.
Doh!
Kym