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DoS Attack Prevents Access to WordPress.com Blogs
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:18:31 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via InfoWorld. [snip] The WordPress.com blog-hosting service suffered a DoS (denial-of-service) attack that began Saturday and was still preventing users from logging in or posting to their blogs on Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg, spokesman for Automattic, confirmed that the service experienced a DoS attack with spikes of up to 6 gigabits of incoming traffic, which was making some blogs inaccessible for about five to 15 minutes on Tuesday. Though service had mostly been restored, Automattic, which maintains WordPress.com, was still working on returning service to normal levels on Tuesday afternoon, he said. "Obviously that [is not good] and is pretty unusual for our service," he said. "All our people who can are working on the issue." [snip] More: http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/19/DoS-attack-prevents-access-to-Wor dPress-blogs_1.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHvLVEq1pz9mNUZTMRArquAJwPyeOc8zXm7YjjQ5sSg2r9f1jURwCfafY/ p0tnr4HwSYVCrXAtwWe5HM8= =IMXk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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