Hotchkiss Consulting Group is announcing that BruteProtect with version number 2.4.2 is already available to download.

What is BruteProtect ?

BruteProtect is A powerful, very useful WordPress plugin to help webmasters protect their WP installations against known, common brute-force attacks . BruteProtect works by keeping track of successive failed login attempts.If a large number of failed login attempts from one IP is recorded in a very short period of time, the plugin deems that IP as being from a login bot and bans it from accessing the site.Because data from all the users that have this plugin installed is tracked and centralized, all of them benefit from a shared database of known brute-force login bots and can help protect their site better than with regular brute-force protection plugins that aggregate data from one single source.BruteProtect also supports multi-site WP installations.Installation:Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress. This is changelog for BruteProtect version 2.4.2 :

• Improve casting in API calls
• Add 403 status to blocked logins (props neoxx)
• Adding announcement for new Jetpack features
• Remove the ability to link your site to My.BruteProtect.com

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: bruteprotect.com