As many of you know we have been using various countermeasures to stop unwanted individuals from getting into our servers. Especially the kind that attempt to brute-force a username/password combination.
To that end we have recently deployed the ‘wp fail2ban’ plugin . The question is does it work?
The answer is below:
--------------------- fail2ban-messages Begin ------------------------ Banned services with Fail2Ban: Bans:Unbans ssh: [ 7:4 ] wp-auth-fail: [944:6 ] ---------------------- fail2ban-messages End ------------------------- Please bear in mind these are 24 hour stats - just one day of activity... Watch this space for some instructions oh how to set-up fail2ban effectively.