I have received two e-mails in the past few days about hackers trying to get into my MAP account (after 5 attempts, it gets locked for a while). I appreciate the 'heads-up' but am unsure of what I should do with the info. Help?
It's a brute force attempt at getting to your password. MAP has built-in protection against that in the form of a limit to the number of attempts that can be made. As long as you have a strong password, you're well protected against this type of attack.
Nah, it's all automated hits, mostly from China. I can't think why anyone would deliberately choose MAP as a target, it's not like there's much personal information available here!
There are automated scripts that look for characterstic html that shows the login form of popular software (stuff like Wordpress, Drupal, VBForums etc) and just tries over and over again to log in from a long list of common passwords. Often, in response, software like ours will stop accounts that try to log in lots of times in quick succession to stop this kind of attack.
You should get an email with an IP address in. If it's repeatedly the same IP address, I can block it on the server's firewall. A lot of the time though, the IP's are other infected servers and change every day. If its different every time, blocking the IP is like running water up a hill with a rake