They cannot be the username or website name<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nIn a Brute Force attack, each character or digit that makes the password longer exponentially increases the difficulty of cracking the password.<\/p>\n
When are you most likely to face a Brute Force attack?<\/h2>\n
The only good news so far is that the better your website performs in search engines like Google, the more bots will find your website.<\/p>\n
It means that your website is well-visible and being visited by users!<\/p>\n
Prevention is better than waiting..<\/h2>\n
Brute Force attacks will always exist, so prevention is better than cure. If you act too late, your website may be filled with backdoors, leading to potential damage. Google doesn’t appreciate spammy websites and can even inform visitors with a red warning that your website is unsafe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How do you block a Brute Force attack? You can block a Brute Force attack by using a security plugin that imposes a temporary or permanent block on the computer from which the attack originates after 5-10 failed login attempts. This block is based on the IP address. Initially, the block is temporary, but if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpbeveiligen.nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}