WordPress attacks ongoing

For years, WordPress blogs have attracted a huge number of malware attacks.  Recently, a number of web hosts are reporting attacks on WordPress blogs hosted on their sites, and warning their customers to take steps to protect their blogs.  What can you do?  These are some potential steps:

1) Ensure your WordPress site is kept up to date with the latest version.

2) Change your WordPress administrative panel password and make sure it adheres to strong password rules (use combination of upper / lower case characters, numbers, and special characters, and a minimum of 8 characters in length).

3) Use tools such as WordFence or CloudFlare to block attacks.

4) Consider adding a rule to your .htaccess file in your administrative panel folder to limit the IP addresses which will have access.

Of course, another, more permanent solution is to switch to another type of blog.

Below are links to some recent articles about the ongoing attacks:

InMotion: http://ht.ly/jZccx

HostGator: http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/

Reddit WordPress: http://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/17e1fu/lots_of_wordpress_sites_under_attack_anyone_else/

CloudFlare: http://blog.cloudflare.com/patching-the-internet-fixing-the-wordpress-br