An Empricial Study of Brute Force Attack on Wordpress Website

This paper demonstrates the brute force attack on WordPress web site and proposes the counter solution for the same. It gives step by step procedure for launching of brute force attack to enumerate the usernames and passwords of the users on the control panel of WordPress web site. This paper is motivated by the recent attack on Optus Australia by hackers and throws light on the modus of operandi of hackers. The paper also proposes few counter measures to avoid this attack.