WordPress – The most widely used Content Management System in today’s Internet world. Due to its popularity, it’s an incredibly attractive target for hackers. There are some attacks to be faced by WordPress websites. Today, I’ll explain you a bit about Brute Force – Most widely used attack for password protected entities.
Brute Force attack also referred as Dictionary attack. It is the most famous attack on Internet. What happens in Brute Force attack, the hacker tries all possible combinations of digits, letters and special characters to guess the password for your account.
Most of the attacks are automated. Running from an individual machine or high-speed servers against your site. It depends on resources how much time is taken to get the actual password.
How attackers ATTACK:
Usually, when we create a WordPress website. We set our Username as “Admin” and Password as “12345” or “admin”. Such kind of most common username and passwords are the …