{"id":747,"date":"2016-08-25T10:40:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudhost.com.ng\/blog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2016-08-25T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:57:34","slug":"how-to-secure-users-credentials-using-cpanel-leech-protection-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudhost.com.ng\/blog\/how-to-secure-users-credentials-using-cpanel-leech-protection-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Secure Users’ Credentials Using cPanel Leech Protection Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article describes how to secure your user’s username and passwords from the public using Leech Protection tool in cPanel.\u00a0Leeching is a practice where unauthorized visitors can maliciously access your user’s login credentials (Username, passwords,…) and use it to access secure areas of your website.<\/p>\n

cPanel gives you the capability to protect your website against leeching by limiting the number of times that a user (authorized or unauthorized) can access\u00a0a secure area of your website within a two-hour period.For Instance, as an admin, you can limit users access to a secure area of your website within two hours to only three(3) attempts which if the limit is exceeded,you can redirect them to another URL, send an alert e-mail, or even disable their account.<\/p>\n