https://emacstragic.net/uncategorized/a-word-on-wordpress-security/ Jason Lewis Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://emacstragic.net/uncategorized/a-word-on-wordpress-security/#comment-39 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:33 +0000 http://emacstragic.net/?p=435#comment-39 I realised what I wrote was perhaps a bit misleading. fail2ban won’t directly protect your WordPress blog from brute force attacks. It could in theory though I don’t know of any pre-written plugins or tools to do that at this time.
What you could do get fail2ban to monitor failed login attempts to WordPress, and ban those IPs.
There is a nice little writeup at Random Bits blog about using fail2ban to block spammers. It would be easy to extend to include failed login attempts. I might have a stab at that at some point.

]]>