Monthly Archives: January 2017

XMLRPC or WP-Login: Which do Brute Force Attackers Prefer

XMLRPC compared to wp-login as an attack target in WordPress. Which is more frequently attacked and how to protect your site against brute force attacks.

Source: www.wordfence.com

Regarding US XMLRPC and Amazon —  

One possibility is that 36 servers at Amazon EC2 have been compromised and they have been used to launch a very rapid and wide-spread brute force attack during the past 2 weeks. That attack generated over 144 million failed login attempts across the sites we monitor.

An alternative theory is that a developer may be using EC2 to host an application that is trying to sign into WordPress websites using XMLRPC. The application may not handle bad user credentials correctly and may just keep retrying.

Cloud Shell Rumors Hint Thin Client Model for Windows – Windows Enterprise Desktop

Cloud Shell rumors hint thin client model for Windows 10 successor to run on all kinds of devices may be in the offing for later in 2017.

Source: searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com

“What would be more interesting is if Microsoft is truly trying to make a version of Windows for the masses that runs in the cloud and then streamed locally to your machine, much like a thin-client, but the details around Cloud shell are still a bit foggy.”

Praim announces the new version of ThinOx 10.1.11 operating system

The new version of ThinOx operating system: new Citrix Receiver and VMware Horizon Client with Blast protocol, better performances

Source: www.praim.com

Praim, global manufacturer of thin & zero clients and management software solutions, announces the release of the 10.1.11 version of the ThinOX operating system for thin and zero client solutions. ThinOX is an Linux based operating system, specifically design to offer users and administrators a high quality thin client solution, granting security, reliability and simplicity of management through ThinMan.