Thursday 3 March 2011

Large-scale DDoS attacked WordPress.com


March 4 morning news, blog platforms WordPress.com yesterday by distributed denial of service attacks on a large scale (DDoS), the user was unable to open the site Dell Inspiron 300M battery and Dell Vostro 1320 battery. Currently the site has been restored access.

The website said: "WordPress.com is experiencing very serious DDoS attack, causing some users unable to connect sites. Attack scale up the number of GB of data per second, the amount of tens of millions of data packets. We are trying to resist the attack, but little effect because the great size of DDoS attacks. Now, with the weakening of attack, all should have been returned to normal. but we are actively cooperate with the upstream network provider, again causing the site to prevent such attacks can not access. "WordPress did not disclose the DDoS attack sources.

WordPress founder cell (Matt Mullenweg) said it was WordPress.com has suffered the largest attack, most likely politically motivated.

He said: "The scale of DDoS attacks are so great, that we in Chicago, Dallas, San Antonio and three data centers are affected. Current attack has eased, but may stage a comeback. We are taking precautionary measures."

Currently, WordPress.com blog publishers for the 30 million to provide services, accounting for 10% of the global Web site, including VIPs TED, CBS (CBS) and U.S. technology blog TechCrunch. The site's unique visitors each month the amount of up to 3 million.

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From: http://latestonline.blog.com

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