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Hackers gain root access to WordPress servers

Matthew
By Matthew ยท 6 replies
Apr 14, 2011
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  1. Automattic, the folks behind WordPress, suffered another blow to its security this week after a hacker gained access to servers containing sensitive company and user data. In a blog post yesterday, President Matt Mullenweg described the breach as a "low-level (root) break-in)" that would have given the attacker access to "potentially anything" on several of Automattic's servers.

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    Apr 14, 2011
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  2. Vicenarian

    Vicenarian TS Booster Posts: 104   +9

    Why can't the people that control the internet, implement something like this:

    An uber-smart "switch" that detects DDoS attacks against websites via traffic/protocol analysis, and automatically cuts off the attackers simply by closing their connections.

    How hard would that be? Honestly...
     
    Apr 14, 2011
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  3. R3DP3NGUIN

    R3DP3NGUIN TS Booster Posts: 152   +10

    there is already sufficient hardware and software solutions, I dont think many companies will upgrade to the latest and greatest of technology though, due to the cost factors and stability and reliability .etc.
     
    Apr 14, 2011
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  4. PinothyJ

    PinothyJ TS Guru Posts: 451   +21

    Why DDoS Wordpress, what did they do to you?


    :(...
     
    Apr 15, 2011
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  5. Leeky

    Leeky TS Evangelist Posts: 3,797   +116

    Like any market leader in their chosen area, they'll be targeted.

    Either that or Sony must have been running a Wordpress blog somewhere.... :haha:
     
    Apr 15, 2011
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  6. Coodu

    Coodu TS Booster Posts: 173

    Really sad to see this - somebody's blog must have started a riot in China, perhaps one about time travel? ;)
     
    Apr 15, 2011
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  7. Per Hansson

    Per Hansson TS Server Guru Posts: 1,943   +192

    vicenarian; DDoS is not easy to control at the hardware layer.
    What a DDoS is is just millions of hosts asking for a specific webpage at the same time.

    To an untrained system admin it will just look like the "Slashdot Effect"
    That is when a smaller site gets linked from a much larger site and succumbs due to the sudden increase in traffic from said site (Been there, got the T-Shirt and all :D)

    And infact a well done DDoS attack will be impossible to filter, if the users (probably part of a botnet, or not in the case of the software LOIC willing participants) do a good job their traffic will indeed be just like the normal HTTP traffic your servers serves daily...
     
    Apr 15, 2011
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