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Protect Your WordPress Blog From Password Hackers With Login Lockdown

Written by Kevin Muldoon from WordPress Mods

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)

Written by Kevin Muldoon from WordPress Mods
Posted on June 19th, 2009 and filed under WordPress Plugins
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18 Responses to “Protect Your WordPress Blog From Password Hackers With Login Lockdown”

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NZVel says:

June 19, 2009 at 7:07 pm

Hey thanks for the great read….. SOOO important to be careful with hackers.
This looks great though.

Thanks….
Alex Sysoef says:

June 19, 2009 at 9:44 pm

Thanks for sharing!

Another security plugin to add to my collection.
Peluang Bisnis says:

June 20, 2009 at 1:37 am

I think we have to increase wordpress security, thanks for the article.
Shrihari says:

June 20, 2009 at 2:33 am

The plugin was not released by TechZoomIn. It was released by Bad Neighbourhood
Perception System - Taufik says:

June 20, 2009 at 4:00 am

It is very useful post . Thanks for Sharing .
TechZoomIn says:

June 20, 2009 at 10:23 am

Kevin,

Thanks for the link love….But the plugin developed by Bad neighbourhood. I just shared it
Fatin Pauzi says:

June 20, 2009 at 4:24 pm

Thanks for sharing. But, besides that, we can also change the “admin” username.
Kevin Muldoon says:

June 21, 2009 at 7:13 am

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.
Jeff says:

June 22, 2009 at 4:50 pm

I agree this should be part of the official release of wordpress. It’s a great plugin that every wordpress blogger should use.

Thanks
Dave Brown says:

June 22, 2009 at 9:55 pm

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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