I wrote about a great little WordPress plugin on BloggingTips on Friday called Login Lockdown. The plugin was created to stop hackers easily hacking your WordPress blog.

It does this by restricting the number of times you can try and login to your blog without submitting the correct details. It then locks out anyone who enters incorrect login details for a set period of time. It also tracks the users IP addresses so that you can see who has been trying to access your blog.

Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery.

Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Administrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.

Since trial and error is one of the most common ways to gain access to a WordPress blog, I strongly encourage you all to download this plugin and help make your blog more secure.

Link : Login Lockdown