Protecting Against WordPress Brute-Force Attacks

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Several waves of  Brute-Force Attacks to my WordPress blog lasted for more than two hours!!!

Like automaticlly adding the attacking IPs to /etc/hosts.deny black list to avoid attacks by sshd, a WordPress plugin “Limit Login Attempts” uses the same strategy to defend attacks.

Hiding the wp-login.php page is also a good choice.