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Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like:
<ul>
<li>Brute-force login-in protection;</li>
<li>Customizable password strength requirements;</li>
<li>XML-RPC access controls;</li>
<li>Account access alerts;</li>
<li>Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans);</li>
<li>User enumeration prevention;</li>
<li>Registration SPAM protection;</li>
<li>Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult;</li>
<li>Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers;</li>
</ul>
Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information.
Knowledge is power!
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires:
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.4+.</li>
<li>PHP 7.3 or later.</li>
<li>PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre.</li>
<li><code>CREATE</code> and <code>DROP</code> MySQL grants.</li>
<li>Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported).</li>
</ul>
Please note: it is not safe to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its <a href="http://php.net/supported-versions.php" rel="nofollow ugc">End of Life</a>. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂
<h3>Log Monitoring</h3>
Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like <a href="http://www.fail2ban.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fail2Ban</a> or <a href="https://ossec.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">OSSEC</a> to ban users via the firewall.
Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to <code>wp-login.php</code>. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools.
If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the <code>die()</code> option, requests for <code>?author=X</code> will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors.
This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties.
Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days.
Please note: Apocalypse Meow DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)

Apocalypse Meow

Works nicely to protect from brute force logins, and the developer is fantastic!

great protection

A simple, light-weight collection of tools to harden WordPress security and help mitigate common types of attacks.

samarpitabhattacharya

Matrix Media Solution Pvt. Ltd.

✤ Websites get hacked every day. Being secure in the online world becomes more and more important every day and it is vital to protect your website and the data it holds now. This plugin helps web-admins to protect their WordPress website in a specific way.
✤ Before taking a look at the detailed description of the plugin, let’s check the URL of the demo page. <a href="https://www.betatesting.net/projects/mm_login_customization/2fal2b6q" rel="nofollow ugc">Click Here</a>, let’s see what this plugin can do.
✤ The default admin login URL of any website developed in WordPress is with ../wp-admin or ../wp-login.php. The problem is, this type of admin log-in makes the WordPress admin section predictable and hence vulnerable. Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated person can breach the admin section of the website. These unauthenticated breaches not only damages the reputation of the website but also offers the miscreants a chance to misuse sensitive and important information.
✤ This plug-in ensures that such breaches never happen to your website. It ensures the security of your website admin login section as well as the website data. Using this plugin, you can generate dynamic admin URLs for login and choose a template for the custom login page as well. This login masks wp-login.php and wp-admin during the login process.
✤ The admin of the website can change the login URL frequently by deactivating the old URL with subsequent activation of the plugin status. Once that is done, save the newly activated plugin status. This plug-in generates different admin log-in URLs for every website. This feature ensures that the miscreants cannot predict the admin log-in URL of your website.
✤ Procedure ✤ 
Active plugin MM Login Customization -> Go to menu option named MM Login Customization -> Choose settings -> Active option from Status tab -> Save URL -> Copy auto generated admin link for future login 
You may choose template from Choose Template tab for admin login page look and feel.
For any query please email us at – <a href="mailto:wordpress@matrixnmedia.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wordpress@matrixnmedia.com</a>

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