Bad Behavior

Over the past day or so I’ve seen close to 1,000 brute force login attempts at my own WordPress sites originating from botnets. Other sites are being hit even harder. After analyzing the data I have, I’ve determined that there are two separate and ... [More] distinct attackers, and Bad Behavior is successfully blocking 100% of attempts […] The post WordPress brute-force login attacks stepped up appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]

Over the past day or so I’ve seen close to 1,000 brute force login attempts at my own WordPress sites originating from botnets. Other sites are being hit even harder. After analyzing the data I have, I’ve determined that there are two separate and distinct attackers, and Bad Behavior is successfully blocking 100% of attempts [...]

Over the past day or so I’ve seen close to 1,000 brute force login attempts at my own WordPress sites originating from botnets. Other sites are being hit even harder. After analyzing the data I have, I’ve determined that there are two separate and ... [More] distinct attackers, and Bad Behavior is successfully blocking 100% of attempts […] The post WordPress brute-force login attacks stepped up appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]

Bad Behavior 2.2.14 has been released. This is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users. Changes The following changes have been made since 2.2.13: An additional exploit scanner has been identified and blocked. A small change has been ... [More] made to accommodate a change made by Firefox to its User-Agent format, to ensure that […] The post Bad Behavior 2.2.14 appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]

Bad Behavior 2.2.14 has been released. This is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users. Changes The following changes have been made since 2.2.13: An additional exploit scanner has been identified and blocked. A small change has been ... [More] made to accommodate a change made by Firefox to its User-Agent format, to ensure that […] The post Bad Behavior 2.2.14 appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]

Bad Behavior 2.2.14 has been released. This is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users. Changes The following changes have been made since 2.2.13: An additional exploit scanner has been identified and blocked. A small change has been made to accommodate a change made by Firefox to its User-Agent format, to ensure that […]

Bad Behavior 2.2.14 has been released. This is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users. Changes The following changes have been made since 2.2.13: An additional exploit scanner has been identified and blocked. A small change has been made to accommodate a change made by Firefox to its User-Agent format, to ensure that [...]

Bad Behavior 2.2.14 has been released. This is a maintenance release and is recommended for all users. Changes The following changes have been made since 2.2.13: An additional exploit scanner has been identified and blocked. A small change has been ... [More] made to accommodate a change made by Firefox to its User-Agent format, to ensure that […] The post Bad Behavior 2.2.14 appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]

I had to temporarily block all user registrations on the bug tracker for a short while due, ironically, to spam registrations. Registration has been reopened for now, and I’m manually dealing with the spammers. This very bad experience has motivated me to do more about web spammers. In this case, the bug tracker is Redmine, [...]

I had to temporarily block all user registrations on the bug tracker for a short while due, ironically, to spam registrations. Registration has been reopened for now, and I’m manually dealing with the spammers. This very bad experience has motivated ... [More] me to do more about web spammers. In this case, the bug tracker is Redmine, […] The post Bug tracker reopened appeared first on Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour. [Less]