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WordPress built sites are under major attack from more than a denial of service attacks (DOS).

As a precaution, I have limited the number of login attempts on this blog to prevent people running malicious programs to crack the logins.

You can read more at Ars Technica:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/huge-attack-on-wordpress-sites-could-spawn-never-before-seen-super-botnet/

Or from a WordPress founder:

http://ma.tt/2013/04/passwords-and-brute-force/