🔥Name Your Own Price🔥 for the 11-Point WP Security Checklist Smart PDF: https://wplearninglab.com/go/wpsecurity016 What is a Brute Force Attack? A hacker gains access to your website by guessing a correct username and password combination. It is a trial and error method most often executed by automated software. What on your site is vulnerable? To carry out a Brute Force Attack hackers usually target one of two places: 1. The login page or the wp-login.php file 2. The xmlrpc.php file How can you protect your website? 1. Password protect the login page via .htaccess - https://youtu.be/oX4Zpyxsx0c 2. Change the login page URL from its default - https://youtu.be/_c4l6Vnr9aQ 3. Lock out IPs that enter too many incorrect username/password combinations - https://youtu.be/QAeGZMkdWHI 4. Disable the xmlrpc.php file via .htaccess - https://youtu.be/WiIaz-Ik3tE If you are even the least bit interested in securing your WordPress site you need to check out the #1 Biggest Security Threat Facing WordPress this year: https://wplearninglab.com/biggest-wordpress-security-measure-optin/ I hope this information helps you! If you have any questions leave a comment below or ping me @WPLearningLab on Twitter. -------------- If you want more excellent WordPress information check out our website where we post WordPress tutorials daily. http://wplearninglab.com/ Connect with us: WP Learning Lab Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=wplearninglab Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wplearninglab Twitter: https://twitter.com/WPLearningLab Google Plus: http://google.com/+Wplearninglab Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/wplearninglab/