Bad Neighbourhood released a nice little WordPress plugin today called Login Lockdown
The plugin was designed to stop hackers from gaining access to your blog via trial and error, something which is quite common with WordPress blogs since most people use the default username login ‘admin’. The plugin lets you set a number of retries to login into your blog. If the user doesn’t enter the correct details they are locked out for a set period of time and their ip address is blocked.
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. Administrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.
This is a great idea for a plugin and one which I would like to see integrated into the official release of WordPress. Until then, I recommend all WordPress bloggers download Login Lockdown, as it could save you a lot of problems in the future 
Link : Login Lockdown (via TechZoomIn)
Hey thanks for the great read….. SOOO important to be careful with hackers.
This looks great though.
Thanks….
Thanks for sharing!
Another security plugin to add to my collection.
I think we have to increase wordpress security, thanks for the article.
The plugin was not released by TechZoomIn. It was released by Bad Neighbourhood
It is very useful post . Thanks for Sharing .
Kevin,
Thanks for the link love….But the plugin developed by Bad neighbourhood. I just shared it
Thanks for sharing. But, besides that, we can also change the "admin" username.
My bad guys. I found the plugin on Techzoomin and assumed it was from there because the plugin was linked to directly (apologies to bad neighbourhood – I have updated the post)
Fatain – very trye but most bloggers keep using admin.
I agree this should be part of the official release of wordpress. It's a great plugin that every wordpress blogger should use.
Thanks
Great writup about a good plugin for wordpress. I use wordpress and I think this is going to be something that i'm gonna be installing real soon.
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I found the plugin on Techzoomin and assumed it was from there because the plugin was linked to directly…. SOOO important to be careful with hackers.
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This is great and I must appreciate this plugin. I had no idea about it. Thanks, I will definitely ad this plugin to my blog.
Can we backup our old wordpress blog after hacking?