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Prevent WordPress Login/Brute Force Attack

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There is a worldwide, highly-distributed WordPress attack that is ongoing on most of the WordPress powered blogs.

The following steps can be used to secure (by password protection) wp-login.php for all WordPress sites in your cPanel account:
How to Password Protect the wp-login.php File
There are two (2) steps in accomplishing this. First you need to define a password in the .wpadmin file, and then you activate the security in the .htaccess file. Read the rest of this entry »