Magento Brute Force Protection

Brute force attacks against popular web applications, such as WordPress and Magento, seems to be surging lately. Botnets use dictionaries and try to log in on the back-end with various common passwords. If this succeeds, it is easy to install a malware component to send spam, steal payment information etcetera. Even if they don’t succeed, these botnets will steal precious resources, because they will fire up thousands and thousands of requests against your website.

So this should be avoided at all costs 😉 To protect against this attack class from now on, your Hypernode is equipped with a system that monitors unsuccessful log in attempts on web and FTP. Attackers are blocked for one hour after 10 unsuccessful tries, so your visitors can shop around safely and undisturbed.