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How Hackers Discover WordPress Admin Usernames – And How to Stop Them

You just launched a fresh WordPress site. No posts published. A completely new admin username. Then, hours later – boom. You start getting brute force login attempt alerts. How did they find the username so fast? It turns out, WordPress … Continue reading →

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