I don’t get a whole lot of traffic on my site compared to, say, a mommy-blogger or Chef John or someone who’s very active on Pinterest. But over the past 7 days GKG has still been attacked almost 500 times by wannabe hackers. I say ‘wannabe’ because they weren’t successful, because yay for site security, but still. Almost 500 attacks, most of which were brute force attacks – that’s when some idiot hacker-type uses software to trial-and-error multiple username and password combinations in hopes of getting lucky. It’s one of the most common ways to try to gain access to a website because it’s one of the easiest, the software does all the work. You may have also heard this called a ‘dictionary attack’. Anyway, I’ve been getting enough of these attacks that Google thought my site was spamming me due to all the blocked-attempt notifications. Get a fucking life, people.
(No, you’re not remembering wrong – there used to be a lot more content in this post. Thank the EU for making it so I can’t share IPs of hackers so other people know to block them.}