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You’re overlooking a key thing there though. You’re assuming every hack is a targeted one. And that simply isn’t the case. Whenever a new vulnerability is discovered for WP (or any popular suite, be it a shop like Magento or message board like phpBB) you then get hordes of bots that trawl the internet looking for sites that run out of date versions of said software just for the purpose of hacking it. Even search engi…
It’s extremely rare for automated attacks to scale against popular CMSs before the patch for that vulnerability is available. In the vast majority of cases the script kiddies find out about the vulnerability when the patch is released. Then some bad guy has to write the script to target it, and distribute that and/or scale it. All a site owner has to do to win, is patch faster than that. We always aimed to evaluate s…
All that means is that you’ve misconfigured your IDS. You’re supposed to filter out stuff that’s not a threat, not remove the entire IDS instance entirely!
You shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_throw_the_baby_out_wit...