Η Automattic bought the plugin BruteProtect to protect against malicious attacks on websites with WordPress. THE company plans to adapt the plugin to the Jetpack suite, which she develops herself.
BruteProtect will remain available for the time being, while the team development is working on adapting it to Jetpack. Automattic will also convert it premium service BruteProtect, which currently costs $5 per month, is a free service for all users. When the technology is fully implemented in Jetpack, the BruteProtect team will notify users in advance before disabling Plugin.
The interest is that, the founder of BruteProtect Sam Hotchkiss revealed that he developed the first version of the tool at 18 hours last year when he noticed a significant increase in botnets using attacks Brute Force to enter their management panel WordPress sites. Last month, BruteProtect blocked 35 millions of attacks.
