Title: Brute Force Attacks
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Brute Force Attacks

 *  [penderra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penderra/)
 * (@penderra)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attacks-1/)
 * I have a number of WP sites and I have the Limit Login Attempts plugin installed
   on them all. I have also ensured that there is no admin user in any of them. 
   So far, so good!
 * It seems to me though that this can slow sites down a bit, especially under a
   large attack, which I have seen frequently on one of my sites.
 * Would it be possible to change the name of the wp-login.php file to something
   else, so that when a site is attacked a 404 page is returned?

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 * Last reply from: [penderra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/penderra/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attacks-1/)
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