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Last week, we wrote about one feature of the Wordfence Security plugin that doesn’t actually provide the protection that Wordfence has been able to convince people otherwise. Another feature that was brought up to us by the same person asking about the other feature was country blocking. That blocks requests based on the IP addresses of the request seemingly coming from a certain country. Interestingly, Wordfence’s own documentation for that feature can’t even muster an explanation for how that is supposed to protect websites. That isn’t surprising if you look at real world attacker activity.
What looked to be one recent attack on our own website involved a hacker trying to log in to our website seven times. They used a different IP address each time. Here are the locations of the IP addresses: [Read more]