DoS Attack Prevents Access to WordPress.com Blogs

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via InfoWorld.

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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."

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More:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/19/DoS-attack-prevents-access-to-Wor
dPress-blogs_1.html

- - ferg

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