Brute force

With the ongoing password guessing attempts at different WordPress blogs, as mentioned at Ars Technica, there are a few, but easy steps you should make to secure your blog. Use a strong password. Rename the admin account to something else. Install the Limit login attempts plugin for WordPress to automatically block login attempts for a certain time. Do not allow remote access to your database. The plugin is in use on this blog, having blocked a couple of hundred attempts,