<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="253821b87a" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1747" /><input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="253821b87a" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/blog/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/1747" />{"id":1747,"date":"2013-09-27T22:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2013-09-27T22:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T12:34:23","slug":"leave-my-website-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesslegions.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/leave-my-website-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave my website alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds0--><p>Yesterday one of my websites was attacked. It was a brute force attack but fortunately they gave up and moved on. How did I know I was getting attacked? Here&#8217;s some stats and logs that seemed very unusual.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1749\" alt=\"website stats attack\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all\" width=\"551\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all 551w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack-300x90.png?strip=all 300w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all&amp;w=110 110w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all&amp;w=220 220w, https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/website-stats-attack.png?strip=all&amp;w=440 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look at the figures, yesterday there were 1212 unique visitors with 21672 page views. Those figures raised a few eye brows as I normally receive around 200 unique visitors and what about page views 21672 &#8211; that&#8217;s just insane. So I looked a bit deeper and looked at the logs which showed the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/attack-login.png?strip=all&w=2560\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1748\" alt=\"attack login\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businesslegions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/attack-login-1024x151.png?strip=all&resize=620%2C91\" width=\"620\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/p><!--CusAds0-->\n<p>Yes, I use WordPress for my websites and someone was trying to login to the website. Fortunately I make sure that I always install or run the latest patches and have a strong password. If you look at the IP addresses, they seem quite random.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, hacker &#8211; LEAVE MY WEBSITE ALONE! Now, for those of you who also run WordPress, there are quite a number of strategies to increase the security on your website and I&#8217;ll talk about these in a separate post. <strong>But in the meantime the most important tip I can give you is make sure you always backup your database and your files.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"lt-box\" style=\"border:1px solid #1d6a9e\"><div class=\"lt-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#2485C6;border-top:1px solid #a7cee8;text-shadow:1px 1px 0 #0b283b\">DO YOU LIKE WHAT YOU'VE READ?<\/div><div class=\"lt-box-content\">Join our subscription list and receive our content right in your mailbox. 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It was a brute force attack but fortunately they gave up and moved on. How did I know I was getting attacked? Here&#8217;s some stats and logs that seemed very unusual. If you look at the figures, yesterday there were 1212 unique visitors with 21672 page views. 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