There has been widespread attacks on wordpress based blogs recently, which made me think about the security of my wordpress websites. Since I do not use the standard administrator usernames – admin, administrator, adminadmin, I was on the safer side. These usernames were used by botnets to access the wordpress blogs, probably by brute forcing. I had some extra security measures in place, and after hearing about these attacks I started to log the attacks. Later I checked in internet and found big list of IPs being blocked either for spamming or for botnet attack. Anyway I added the ones I logged to these IPs and started blocking all these IPs. The download link to the list of IPs is available below the post. I would recommend other webmaster, whether they use wordpress or not have an eye on these IPs. If owners of any of these IPs think you are added to the list without any reason, please make valid claims to remove you from the list.
IP Blocklist
