Hacker attempts WARNING | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

If you use 'admin' as your Wordpress user name, change it asap – and your password. 

I use a plug in called Limit Login Attempts.  You set the number of times someone from the same IP can attempt to login.  If someone does try to login in more than that number of times, they are locked out for a period of time (that you specifiy).  The plugin then sends you an email to let you know that someone attempted and was locked out.

This morning, I had 42 notifications that someone had attempted to login in using 'admin' (which is not my user name).

This is the most I've ever received in one day.

Be aware that hackers are always out there trying to get control of your blog!!  Don't use 'admin' as a user name (I've also had them try the blog name as user name).  Make your passwords complex and change them!

That is a great start and one that can help, but just changing the admin is not as good as it used to be. I recommend trying out the BruteProtect plugin, which is now owned by Automattic, who is the corporate arm of Wordpress.  Also, if you have been writing for some time and now just want to change your username, you might have to do some database work to get your gravatar to show up properly on older posts.  It uses the user id, not the name as an association!

I used to subscribe to alerts from my security plugin whenever there were hacking attempts. It became so stressful I had to unscubscribe lol. I guess that's not really funny, but I'm sure you guys can relate!