WordPress.com Suffers “Extremely Large” DDoS Attack

[The Straight Story]

You have no idea how hard it was to get this post up, as WordPress.com, our blog host, is currently under a denial of service attack. It’s been almost impossible to access the TechCrunch backend for the past 10 minutes and users are receiving a “Writes to the service have been disabled, we will be bringing everything back online ASAP” error message.

From their blog post, which also seems to be down:

WordPress.com is currently being targeted by a extremely large Distributed Denial of Service attack which is affecting connectivity in some cases. The size of the attack is multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second.

We are working to mitigate the attack, but because of the extreme size, it is proving rather difficult. At this time, everything should be back to normal as the attack has subsided, but we are actively working with our upstream providers on measures to prevent such attacks from affecting connectivity going forward.

We will be making our VIP sites a priority in this endeavor, and as always, you can contact us via [email protected] for the latest update. We will also update this post with more information as it becomes available


http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/03/wordpress-com-suffers-major-ddos-attack/

[jwirr]

1. Who are their potential enemies?

[The Straight Story]

2. "may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs,"

Update at 10:35 a.m.: In an e-mail to CNET, WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg said the attack had affected three of the company's data centers, and was the largest its seen in the company's six-year history. Mullenweg also said that the attack "may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs," but that that detail had not been confirmed. Full e-mail below:

There's an ongoing DDoS attack that was large enough to impact all three of our data centers in Chicago, San Antonio, and Dallas--it's currently been neutralized but it's possible it could flare up again later, which we're taking proactive steps to implement.

This is the largest and most sustained attack we've seen in our six-year history. We suspect it may have been politically motivated against one of our non-English blogs but we're still investigating and have no definitive evidence yet.



Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20038874-83.html#ixzz1FZ9ILgSR

[jwirr]

3. My grandson is playing WOW in his room while we out here in the

real world seem to be fighting cy-ber wars everywhere. An interesting time to live in.

[JeffersonChick]

4. Wordpress???? Why the hell would anyone attack WordPress?

I don't get it. Someone please explain.

I love WordPress!

:shrug:

[mmonk]

5. Me too. My personal blog is there.

[jberryhill]

6. Go Anonymous!

[MattSh]

7. And you know this is anonymous?

How?

You think they are the only ones who can or will do these types of things?

[jberryhill]

8. Okay, then Go Whoever!

I'm sure there is a lot of stuff I don't like hosted at wordpress.

Or at least a lot of stuff that someone doesn't like.

That's how this works now. If a website is deemed "bad" by someone, then they take it out.