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Woke up this morning to 400 email alerts that someone tried to gain access to one of my sites overnight between 12-2 am.

I saw a few attempts yesterday afternoon that seemed to be coming from the...

There's also Better WP Security. It has a ton of security features, and you can also set it to alert you of any file changes or bad attempts to gain access.
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Last year I got like 3 phone calls in the same month from people who's website were getting redirected FROM the Google serps. You could see the site in the search results, but when you clicked the...

Thanks, Harold. Org seems to be more likely to have trouble since it allows javascript (I think, don't quote me on that). But yes of course, always better safe than sorry.

No, it's not that it's...

Agree with this! Even if your site has no links and is not found anywhere on the web, people run port scans across IP Blocks all day long and they will find you eventually.

My web servers see...

I had to learn the hard way how malicious it can be on the web. It's amazing to watch someone from the other side of the world target your site for hours. Trying over and over to basically guess your...

Funny Harold about locking yourself out of your site. I'm not afraid to admit I've done the same thing. In fact early on here I was blocking an IP address through the admin side of the forum, but I...

Does this affect Wordpress.org, .com or both?

Self Hosted (.org). WordPress takes care of security for WordPress.com. But common sense precautions are always a good idea.

Funny, they never attack my oscommerce version 1.0 :)

Here's my Archie Bunker "Whoop-dee-doo" face :rolleyes:.

Hope you knocked on wood.

Funny thing happened to me last week that made me think of this thread.

I woke up one morning and had like 40 email alerts that some a**hole in the Ukraine from the same IP address found my log...