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Comment Re:Admin wasn't just the default password (Score 1) 110

by Josh Hackney (#43437187) Attached to: Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack
They're doing it because webservers come with a 15K SAS drive and a 10Gbit ethernet port to send spam out of and launch more attacks. would you rather have some dudes home computer or a web server in a state of the art datacenter? Point being, setting your logins to comon settings has always been a horrible idea just the same way you wouldn't want the lock to your house to open with a key you can buy from homedepot (read, admin//password as your login)

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