Keeping your website safe is important. A hacked website can really hurt your business whether because of a bad reputation or the loss of sales. This means the loss of real money.
Today I would like to present a WordPress plugin that helps you to protect your website with simple, no frills, functionality. Just install and activate it and your website is safer.
Login Lockdown: Limits the number of login attempts from a given IP range within a certain time period.
Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery. Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Admisitrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.
The preset is absurd. 3 login attempts is too easy to trip even for me.
It’s a good idea to have more than 3 unique passwords when you have multiple accounts online, so this would make it difficult to triage if you forgot your password.
If they want to block brute-force cracking, they should set it to 10 login attempts every 5 minutes with a 30 minute lock-span and require users to make better passwords incorporating non-alphabet and non-numeric characters.