Secure WordPress by deleting the admin user

July 29, 2009
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DailyBlogTips.com logoDailyBlogTips.com recently published an article on why you should remove the default “admin” user from your WordPress installation. You are most likely using the “admin” user that was installed by default when WordPress was set up.

DBT says “The problem with this is evident: if someone wanted to gain access to your blog, all he would need to do is to keep using the “admin” user name with a bunch of passwords combinations. This is called brute force attack, and with automated tools it works quite often.”

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