WordPress comes under 'extremely large' web attack
WordPress came under massive attack on Thursday, causing disruptions for many of the sites that rely on the webhosting platform to publish their content. “WordPress.com is currently being targeted by a extremely large Distributed Denial of Service attack which is affecting connectivity in some cases,” Sara Rosso, a …
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OK, who upset the skiddies?
I'm betting on there being a high pimple to social kill ratio involved.
Pardon me for asking...
This may seem like a weird question, but... WHY? Why would anyone want to DDOS Wordpress? I really don't get it.
The world is going to hell. I'm going to get a beer.
ddos isn't what it used to be
Criminals used to ddos gambling sites demanding ransom - life was simple.
These days of universal fast broadband connections mean throwing a few Gbits around just isn't that hard, people can do it for shits and giggles - like here.
Most likely someone blogged saying x or y was crap and this is retaliation. Until ISPs around the world are forced to control what exits their networks my advice would be to not piss people off, you never know.
8.5%?
That 8.5% is irrelevant. That includes non-Worrdpress hosted copies installed elsewhere.
The attack isn't against all wordpress installs, but only against Wordpress's own servers.
Correct
WordPress.com and the self-hosted CMS available from WordPress.org are two different beasts.
Those hosting their own WordPress sites would be totally unaffected by this.
In case anyone wondered
(Matt Bryant, I see you trollin...)
This was unequivocally NOT an AnonOp.
RE: In case anyone wondered
Whilst I'm amused to see your autnomic reaction is to assume "skiddies" = Anon, I think you need to switch to decaf and tone down the defensiveness. Even I can't see a reason for Anon to be hitting Wordpress. These are more likely to be bored Chinese skiddies doing criminal acts for fun, rather than bored over-privelleged Western skiddies doing criminal acts due to a misplaced sense of moral outrage.....
extremely large Distributed Denial of Service?
> WordPress.com is currently being targeted by a extremely large Distributed Denial of Service attack
What desktop OS are we not allowed to mention in this context?
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