Thursday, March 03, 2011

South Korea, WordPress Under Massive DDoS Attack

Breaking- Both South Korean government websites and WordPress are experiencing massive Denial of Service attack (DDoS).

KBS News reports on South Korea:
The Web sites of the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae, the Foreign Ministry, the National Intelligence Service and other agencies came under DDoS attack on Friday. 
Antivirus developer Ahnlab says 40 Web sites of South Korean government agencies, NAVER and other major Web portals and financial institutes were struck by so called distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) at 10 a.m.
Techie Buzz reports on WordPress (emphasis mine):
If you are experiencing issues with your WordPress service, you are not alone. WordPress says it is under, what they think is, the largest DDoS attac[k] they have ever seen. The size of the attach is multiple gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second. The attach has affected all three datacenters WordPress uses in Chicago, San Antonio and Dallas.

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