Bother Attacking Wordpress Blogs
 

Did anyone else read about the botnet exposed? The Russian in charge didn’t pay for his API key renewal and got locked out?! Only 20,000 bots but good information on what they looked for and the vulnerabilities there are or were there

I didn’t see any attempts at that exploit, just the login attempts.

I think they need to teach people how to tighten up the open ports

Sources are always useful when posting on very specific topics. Otherwise we have to guess what you're talking about.

The web uses port 80, which is open on web servers (surprise!)

You don't know what you are talking about :2 cents:

Doesn't matter as it has no idea what it is talking about either.

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My mental picture of Pam is of Alfred Hitchcock dressed like Norman Bates mom trying to update a stock-themed WordPress blog with a typewriter.

feel like a total asshole that I am dying laughing over here at the comments

This is my mental picture

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Got a link?

So PamWinterReturs in the new fake nick of Sally Rand? What is it with this forum and the mentally ill?

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Tonight I do

Botnet attack cripples Wordpress sites. Earlier I had a minute to post and couldn’t grab the link.

Pretty sad how gullible people are when falling for these. In my past I was on the other side, finding them and helping shutting them down. Newbies here need to learn about knowledgeable hosts, open ports, how to detect open ports and how to avoid exploits. Oh, and update your software and plugins when prompted to do so.

I know the instructions say so, but too many skip all the reading and miss important things.

Sure you were.

Mostly these exploits happen via brute force logins on insecure Wordpress installations. Every one of them happens over port 80 (you know that port for websites) so blocking port 80 would simply make your website inaccessible.

The prevention measures are simple, run up to date code (Wordpress & Plugins) and use strong passwords. You don't need to worry about blocking ports.

LOL, this reminded me to go in and check my wife's blogs and sure enough she had missed the 5.0 update that came out last week. Just finished installing it. So, thanks.

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Nah, they're wrong. I know who she is. I spoke to her about 15 years ago when she was sane. She lived a few towns over from me.

So she really is struggling with whatever happened to her? Now I feel like a dick... :(

I fully bought into her situation and for a long time there I was offering help when I could and being as gentle as I could.

Doesn't matter, I apparently ended up on her ignore list because I called her out on her signature, which was quite offensive.

The fact that she went through (and continues to go through bad times) does not give her permission to be an outright bitch. It also does not forgive her lack of gratitude for the help that people have gone out of their way to give her.

enough said.

Thank you OneHungLo for that insight. It is appreciated.

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Note to self. Be nicer to people.

Mental illness is very rough, maybe even worse than physical illness. People can't see so they don't understand. Reading her posts, clearly something is not quite right. It's good to take a step back, recognize something isn't right and move on.

Good advice. Thanks for that.

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