Category: Login Protection
Passkeys: no need for Limit Login Attempts?
Traditional logins with usernames and passwords are often targeted by brute-force attacks, phishing, and credential stuffing. That’s where Passkeys come in: a modern, phishing-resistant authentication method that has been gaining traction for its usability and strength. Really Simple Security Pro includes Passkey support to allow site administrators to enable (or enforce) passkey-based logins on WordPress, replacing the need for traditional passwords. This can be enforced per user role: for instance, you can require Passkeys for Administrator and Editor roles only.
Changing the Email Template
You will be sending emails to your users, from your server. This means you can edit the email template to your liking. Here we will explain how to override the HTML template, and use your own logo. The unbranded version of the email will be sent to your users. Overriding the default E-mail 2FA template – Create a new folder in the /wp-content/ directory of your WordPress site, rename the folder to custom-email-templates – Navigate to /wp-content/plugins/really-simple-ssl-pro/mailer/templates/, and create a
Login protection as essential security
Your WordPress login page is publicly accessible to anyone who knows your domain. That means it gets hit by automated bots running through username and password combinations every day. Most attacks on WordPress sites start right here. Login protection covers a few critical variables: limiting how many login attempts are allowed, changing or hiding the login URL so bots cannot easily find it, and adding a second verification step (2FA) so a stolen password alone isn’t enough to break in.
Password has been found in a data breach
You might have encountered the following warning when trying to create a new account on a WordPress website, or when changing the password of an existing account: “Warning: This password has been found in (X) data breaches. Please choose a different password.” This message appears due to an active security measure on the website where you tried to register, which is designed to prevent accounts from being hacked due to the use of previously breached credentials. What does this warning mean?
Preventing the use of compromised passwords
Re-using passwords that have previously been breached poses a significant security risk to the accounts on your WordPress website. It might allow a hacker to perform a successful credential stuffing attack, whereby they attempt using previously breached usernames and passwords to gain access to accounts on various websites. Really Simple Security now offers a powerful compromised password check feature to protect you against these types of attacks. This setting prevents users from using passwords that had previously been exposed in