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# matbrite

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 *   Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
   
   In reply to: [Admin username is easily found](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-username-is-easily-found/)
 *  Thread Starter [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-username-is-easily-found/#post-2654886)
 * Personally, I wouldn’t use an easily determinable name for an admin account, 
   I guess that’s preference. Apart from which I wouldn’t setup any wordpress install
   to use actual usernames in link URIs. Anyway, even Worpdress themselves suggest
   changing the admin name from admin – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#Security_through_obscurity](http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress#Security_through_obscurity)
 *   Forum: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
   
   In reply to: [Admin username is easily found](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-username-is-easily-found/)
 *  Thread Starter [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-username-is-easily-found/#post-2654862)
 * Thanks very much for the link, we have a custom brute force detection script 
   which caught this occurance, but we’ll take a further look at that one. It was
   the easy with which usernames/nicknames could be found which was a surprise. 
   Strikes me as a flaw in WordPress.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Hairy Automattic crawler](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hairy-automattic-crawler/)
 *  [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hairy-automattic-crawler/#post-2494232)
 * Really interesting Evan, Chief Dog Walker 😀 Thanks very much for your direct
   reply! Apart from “The Automattic Analytics Crawler is a utility we use to discover
   how people use WordPress.” May I ask, what data do you collect and how do you
   use it, and is the data made available to anyone outside of wordpress? Sounds
   funny but, did you fix the 404 errors on your ‘crawling’?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Hairy Automattic crawler](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hairy-automattic-crawler/)
 *  [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hairy-automattic-crawler/#post-2494126)
 * Same thing about 15 minutes ago, generating 404s all over the place, blocked 
   with mod_security 😉
 * Note the bad spelling, but the originating IP address: 72.233.119.245 resolves
   to a server provided by Softlayer, to whom wordpress.com also resolves, so who
   knows?
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Theme My Login] Error – does not display wrong password error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-my-login-error-does-not-display-wrong-password-error/)
 *  Thread Starter [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-my-login-error-does-not-display-wrong-password-error/#post-2284064)
 * also this is now evident on the default and two other themes
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Plugin: Theme My Login] Error – does not display wrong password error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-my-login-error-does-not-display-wrong-password-error/)
 *  Thread Starter [matbrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matbrite/)
 * (@matbrite)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-theme-my-login-error-does-not-display-wrong-password-error/#post-2284062)
 * Thanks for your reply Jeff, but no, using the default theme sees the same issue
   🙁

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