Wordpress Nether Massive Ddos Assail !

Readers of Financial Post or National Post blogs mightiness accept flora them difficult, if non impossible, to access Th morning.

That is because WordPress, the platform through which every FP in addition to NP weblog has been published for the past times 10 months, has been nether assault past times hackers for the past times several hours. Using the same method every bit the hackers who brought downwardly the principal websites of Visa, Mastercard in addition to PayPal final twelvemonth to back upwards the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Thursday’s attacks accept caused hence far untold numbers of WordPress-powered blogs to instruct near inaccessible.

“WordPress.com is currently beingness targeted past times an extremely large Distributed Denial of Service assault [DDoS] which is affecting connectivity inwards approximately cases,” said Sara Rosso of WordPress VIP services inwards a weblog shipping service Th morning. “The size of the assault is multiple Gigabits per minute in addition to tens of millions of packets [of data] per second.” “We are working to mitigate the attack, exactly because of the extreme size, it is proving rather difficult,” she said.

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