jsdaniels

Thanks to everyone who replied!
I checked back for about a week and then stopped so sorry if this response is really late (and maybe irrelevant…)

@brokkr Thanks for the info. Since the sudden spike, I installed a plugin that let’s me view live traffic and indeed, a certain country was behind most of the login attempts. After New Years, the login attempts decreased dramatically, from 125 attempts/hr to approx. 100 attempts/day. Still pretty high, but I’m no longer pulling my hair over it. (country variety has also gone up. About 15 countries regularly attempt logins, two countries the most.)

@jeherve Thanks for the reply. I don’t know how safe SiteLock is if the person operating the system can’t seem to detect any abnormal activities and the program is the only thing that knows what’s going on. I still have no idea how SiteLock works since they could not detect the sudden rise in bot login attempts.

@catonezillion If you get a plugin that shows you live traffic, you’ll see that there are bots that access your login page or try to find valid user names through some type of “/author” variation. I think Jetpack is detecting those attempts because the numbers roughly match up. I don’t know if Jetpack blocks future attempts by the same bot/IP so I use the plugin that shows live traffic to block the IP manually.
It’s not the most fun job, but I log in to my site regularly to manually block IP’s that access my login page to see if they try again. And I found that a lot of bots DO return for a second and third attempt. Keep in mind there are also a lot of crawl bots too so don’t accidentally block those. (They don’t ever access the login page so you can tell them apart).
I hope this information helps.

Malicious login attempts is up to 8303
I’ve tried deleting my admin user and transferring to another user
I’ve tried contacting my hosting service provider and Sitelock but they say there haven’t seen any traffic spikes at all.
I’ve changed my passwords and tried tweaking Jetpack settings and other security related settings.
But malicious login attempts are still climbing at a rate of approx. 125 attempts per hour.
Should I be seriously worried about a dangerous hacking attempt
Or is this a Jetpack error??

Also if these attempts are legitimate, there are no ways to view the IP address for these attempts on the jetpack plugin which I think should be added

Here is the link to my site if you need to take a look at it

https://jamiesdaniels.com

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by jsdaniels.
• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by jsdaniels.

Thank you for your reply
I disabled the facebook open graph feature that comes with yoast and I have verified both with twitter card validator and actually posting a tweet (then deleting it) that the thumbnail now works!
Thank you very much for your help. I will continue using Yoast from now on since the problem is fixed.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by jsdaniels.

Hello, thank you for your reply.
Just today my missing twitter thumbnail came back which I assume is because the crawl finally noticed there was a change to the coding of the post.
I forgot to take a screenshot of my twitter error but here is a image link to someone who had the same issue but not with yoast
https://www.cesarserna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Card_Validator___Twitter_Developers3.jpg
This is what my error looked like.
I tried tweaking the social twitter options given by yoast like the link you provided but nothing seemed to do the trick.
Here is the link to the blogpost that didn’t have a preview thumbnail when linked in a tweet: https://jamiesdaniels.com/2016/12/09/self-publishing-part-5/
I’m not sure if waiting it out would have eventually given me a preview thumbnail, but it is inconvenient if the wait is required every time.
After disabling yoast, I have not had any problems with twitter summary cards.
Thank you for your reply and offer of assistance.
If you absolutely need a sample of the exact problem, I will try to recreate it by posting something else on my blog with yoast activated and link it on twitter. Please tell me in your reply.