botnet Archives - Webnames Blog Domains, Hosting, SSL and Ideas for businesses to succeed online Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:02:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Security Threat to WordPress https://blog.webnames.ca/security-threat-to-wordpress/ https://blog.webnames.ca/security-threat-to-wordpress/#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:08:15 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2013/04/security-threat-to-wordpress/ UPDATE: Security Threat to WordPress Last week, we informed customers of a security threat to WordPress websites, which is being facilitated by a very large and well connected botnet. In the past week, we have fared reasonably well against the attack by mitigating the volume of login attempts to customer’s WordPress websites. Unfortunately, a more…

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]]> https://blog.webnames.ca/security-threat-to-wordpress/feed/ 5 Potential Security Threat to WordPress – Update your Password! https://blog.webnames.ca/potential-security-threat-to-w/ Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:33:19 +0000 http://blog.webnames.ca/2013/04/potential-security-threat-to-w/ The seedy underbelly of the Internet is at it again. This time, their target is WordPress, with the aim of taking control over such websites for the proliferation of spam, the hosting of phishing websites – or both. To facilitate such an attack, a massive and well-connected botnet has been assembled, consisting of some 90,000…

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