themadproducer on "[Plugin: Simple History] Server Load / CPU Usage / Page...
Hi Pär, Nice plugin...I recently installed. I am a bit concerned about the server load / cpu usage / page load time...when this plugin is active. Once in a while, I enable a handy plugin named P3...
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Thanks for your feedback. I have not experienced that myself. I've run P3 Plugin Profiler but can't see that Simple History uses any CPU at all there. Could you post a log/screenshot of your findings...
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Sure you bet Pär. Thanks for your reply. I've been doing a ton of upgrades and experiment so just bare with me as I need to make sure nothing else is running to hot before I do some tests with this...
View Articlethemadproducer on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
Last night, Wordfence blocked a "single IP" brute force attack. The bot continued relentlessly over 3000 times targetting the same "banned url". (a non existing login url) My server logs clearly shows...
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follow up to my previous post... I got nailed with another single ip bot attack which didn't stop at 4000+ attempts at my wp-login.php. My server load went sky high. I ended up using an IP whitelist in...
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This has become my utmost security concern with WordPress the past year, so much so I am considering moving to another CMS even though my business has been built around WP development for over 10...
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@pingram3541: I was at the Suits & Spooks conference in Washington DC earlier this year and this subject came up. Specifically, the legality of "hacking back". I know you're not directly suggesting...
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@themadproducer: Sorry I replied to the other poster first. Should have replied to you since this is your thread. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We have a feature in the queue which will be...
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@WordFence Thanks for the feedback Mark. As you already guessed yes its a bit difficult at the moment to calculate the actual cost. I might look into a way to get tangible numbers and I'll definitely...
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@pingram3541 @Mark Thanks for adding input to this thread. It feels like an AA meeting for website security lol. Here are some trends and info I've noticed in the past few weeks of testing: - every...
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I'm loving it. This is exactly the spark I was hoping to see. @themadproducer great idea, this would definitely minimize the amount of manual work experienced users currently have to do but bring it to...
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Another light bulb idea!!! Continuing with the Botnet... After WF has determined that a botnet is occurring... - all ip's are blocked from accessing wp-login.php via htaccess - email gets sent to the...
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Absolutely a great idea. Take it a step further, the email provides a private one time generated link to the page which captures the "referrer source ip" via HTTP upon visit which writes the necessary...
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Thanks for helping design Wordfence guys! That was a lot. Many good ideas here. I'm going to try and distill them down into the very best of the best: Goal: We need to not just block the bad guys. We...
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Incidentally, the issue I updated on our side (internally) is numbered 567 in case you'd like to reference that in further discussions with Tim, Colette or Matt R who all contribute on these forums and...
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Thanks Mark. Can't wait to see how this might materialize in the near future. Additionally I'm more than willing to help in any way I can . Cheers!
View Articlethemadproducer on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
Yes thank you from all of us Matt. Your response was a welcomed one and it pretty much made my wknd. Also thanks for your input pingram3541. I believe that a strategic improvement, even if noticed or...
View Articlescottkr24 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
"You should change the notification frequency of WF." And exactly where is this setting?
View Articlescottkr24 on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force Attack...
How do you stop the constant brute force attacks or is that not possible?
View Articlethemadproducer on "[Plugin: Wordfence Security] 3000+ High CPU Brute Force...
@scottkr24 WF>Options>ALERTS...Maximum email alerts to send per hour Choose a number like 1 so if you have 10 events that happen in an hour, instead of getting 10 separate emails, you will get...
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