Blogs under attack?

My blog has been hammered at from day one, but I've noticed an uptick in attacks lately. Some are just background hackers. Some surges happen anytime I write a post that gets linked from a big discussion site. I love the ones that seem to come after someone gets butthurt over one of my Filigree's Rule posts. Those make me feel like I'm doing good work. I don't trust my hosting site that much, but I have a lot of secondary security measures.

You may be seeing increased attacks after the last gmail leak, too. I know I have.

Make sure you don't have a login username like Account, or Admin or Test, or Administrator.

Don't have the WordPress "nickname" field in your User Profile match any login name.

Don't have a user with the userid of 1.

Don't install plugins you aren't using. If you will use it later, consider deactivating it.

Consider having an account you use to post with, that isn't your Admin account, and never posting from your Admin account.

AW Admin said:

Don't have a user with the userid of 1.

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Oh, hey, I'd never considered that being an issue. I assume it's because it can evaluate to "true" in some instances?

Angry Guy said:

Hmm, well, I did post some stuff in the last couple of days, but it's not controversial and it doesn't link to or from. I wonder if some newly discovered vulnerability has the hackers more hopeful about getting into sites.

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It's unlikely to be anything in particular. This is like a car thief checking the doors as they walk down the road. It's not personal. They're just looking for the one left unlocked. They'll try the locks more some days than others, but not for any real reason.