Admin brute force attacks

  • I use word-press .org
    Latest version installed
    Plug-in: Securi Security

    I am getting perhaps 30 emails a day like:

    Subject: Failed Login
    Login Info:
    Time: December 17, 2014 7:47 am
    Website Info:
    Site: site name given
    IP Address: 86.15.119.66
    Notification:
    User authentication failed: admin

    I also get some emails like

    Your website … is undergoing a brute force attack. There have been at least 50 failed attempts to log in during the past 120 minutes that used one or more of the following components:

    Component Count Value from Current Attempt
    ———————— —– ———–
    Network IP 35 86.15.119.*
    Username 50 admin
    Password MD5 1 a4203f63a03a04add5b6068a586489c8

    The most recent attempt came from the following IP address: 86.15.119.66
    The Login Security Solution plugin (0.49.0) for WordPress is repelling the attack by making their login failures take a very long time.

    **** All these attacks are aimed at username admin.

    Question: As I use a different username, is my site safe from these attacks aimed at “admin”

    Question: Is there any way that I can stop getting emails about attacks on “admin”. If other user names were being attacked I would want to know this.

    A few days ago I tried to increase my security. In securi I went to “settings” and to “Trust IP” and set my own IP number.
    Question: Dos this mean that now I can only log in from the one computer.
    Question: Does this mean that if this computer fails, I will be locked out of my site.
    Question: As all these attacks are on “admin”, can I relax about these attacks and delete my IP address from “trust IP”. I would also like to be able to log on from other computers in the house.

    Since I first started using Securi I can see this message:

    “Changes in the integrity of your core files were detected. There are files that were added, modified, and/or removed in the core directories /<root>, /wp-admin and/or /wp- includes. You may want to check each file to determine if they were infected with malicious code.”

    Question: Does this message appear for all sites when they first start using secure?
    Question: Where can I find out how to deal with this?

    Thanks

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