Re: Fedora Magazine - Failed login attempts

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On 07/16/2014 10:52 AM, Chris Roberts wrote:
> Hi Mitzie,
> 
> I am looking for a few plugins that we can push to the staging instance and test.

Do we have the Bad Behavior plugin installed? I think that would help
with this. It would also help mitigate spam as well. I use Bad Behavior
+ Akismet on my personal blogs and they do a lot to keep spam at bay,
and I don't see a bunch of failed login attempts either. (Granted, my
sites are less popular than Fedora Magazine... )

> I will reply with what I find.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Chris Roberts
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zacharias Mitzelos" <zacharias.mitzelos@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:30:24 AM
> Subject: Fedora Magazine - Failed login attempts
> 
> I logged in to the Magazine today because I would like to start in an 
> article. Jetpack's Security Audit is a widget from jetpack that we have 
> enabled, which shows you the latest security logs in the administrator's 
> dashboard, and I saw that there are 287 failed logins (and counting) to 
> the username 'admin'
> 
> Is there a way to implement a captcha plugin at the login page? Is there 
> anything else we could do?
> I have removed all privileges of 'admin' for now (since it's an account 
> that non of us use), and btw I promoted mattdm from editor to admin.
> 
> Zacharias (mitzie)
> 


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