Sri Lankan Security researcher Osanda Malith discovered a DoS -or crash- vulnerability in MySQL’s Procedure Analyse Function. The vulnerability crashes MySQL versions up to 5.5.45.
Denial-of-Service
Add a delay to your WordPress login form
Or why *not* to add a delay … !
It is important to protect your WordPress website from brute-force attacks, and various security plugins exist in doing so. For the purpose of this article, I modified the WordPress Login Delay plugin with a fixed delay of three seconds for my wp-login.php
page. This provides you with an easy to use method of protecting your WordPress login form (but do read the caveats!).