Widespread brute force attack targets WordPress

Last week a large scale, brute-force attack started targeting the default WordPress login pages of sites around the world. A brute-force attack is when an automated program or script, sometimes called a bot, tries to guess your password by repeatedly attempting to log...

WordPress and problems with RewriteRules and w00t

Have you been recently seeing these URLs in error.log [error] [client 69.162.74.102] client sent HTTP/1.1 request without hostname (see RFC2616 section 14.23): /w00tw00t.at.ISC.SANS.DFind:) The F flag sends a 403 Forbidden response when the rule matches: RewriteRule...

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