A massive data attack has taken the popular Wordpress blog provider. com paralyzed: overtime, many Blogs do not reach, including in the repressive regime of critics States. CEO Mullenweg suspects a political background for the attack. The blog provider Wordpress.com, which is used worldwide by some 18 million people, was on Thursday the victim of a cyber attack.
Many bloggers were at times not subscribe to a service. After six hours, all blogs were accessible again. Noteworthy is the strength of the attack: As CEO Matt Mullenweg announced that all three data centers are powered by Wordpress. com have been affected. Gigabit per second are more data to the server is pouring down, a two-digit number in the millions of queries per second.
In such a "Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) servers with useless requests forced to its knees. Often used for so-called botnets. Such computer networks are composed of computers that have been infected with so-called Trojan software and thus can be controlled remotely by cyber-criminals can.
The owners of infected computers often do not even realize that they are part of such a botnet. The current attack on Word Press. com is the largest and longest sustained attack in the six year history, said the CEO. You've finally repel the attack but can now meet and precautions against a new failure by a similar kind DDoS attacks.
Who is behind the attack is unclear - but compared to Techcrunch Mullenweg suggested, the zombie attack could have been directed against a non-English blog. A political background is quite possible: government critics in China and the Middle East use the service. Word Press.com operates its offer based on the free software Wordpress.
Among the users are individuals and organizations. A basic version is free, extra features cost money. In addition, Word Press. com a "VIP service". Major customers include the television station CNN, CBS and NBC as well as the popular tech blog TechCrunch and GigaOM.
Many bloggers were at times not subscribe to a service. After six hours, all blogs were accessible again. Noteworthy is the strength of the attack: As CEO Matt Mullenweg announced that all three data centers are powered by Wordpress. com have been affected. Gigabit per second are more data to the server is pouring down, a two-digit number in the millions of queries per second.
In such a "Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) servers with useless requests forced to its knees. Often used for so-called botnets. Such computer networks are composed of computers that have been infected with so-called Trojan software and thus can be controlled remotely by cyber-criminals can.
The owners of infected computers often do not even realize that they are part of such a botnet. The current attack on Word Press. com is the largest and longest sustained attack in the six year history, said the CEO. You've finally repel the attack but can now meet and precautions against a new failure by a similar kind DDoS attacks.
Who is behind the attack is unclear - but compared to Techcrunch Mullenweg suggested, the zombie attack could have been directed against a non-English blog. A political background is quite possible: government critics in China and the Middle East use the service. Word Press.com operates its offer based on the free software Wordpress.
Among the users are individuals and organizations. A basic version is free, extra features cost money. In addition, Word Press. com a "VIP service". Major customers include the television station CNN, CBS and NBC as well as the popular tech blog TechCrunch and GigaOM.
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