Fix For Recent WordPress Brute Force Attack Is Easier Than You Think

Fix For Recent WordPress Brute Force Attack Is Easier Than You Think

Over the past couple of days it has been widely reported that WordPress based sites are being targeted by a massive brute force attack, one that is supposedly backed by a botnet with over 90,000 IP addresses. The nature of this attack has been described as being much larger than usual, with CloudFlar alone blocking over 60 million requests in under one hour. The attack is believed to be on a global scale, affecting almost every web host out there. So naturally WordPress users have been looking for a fix, which is surprisingly easy, this coming from the man himself who made WordPress.

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That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie

You might’ve read some headlines today—in very reputable publications—saying that there’s an online attack underway. The biggest in history. Enough to slow down the internet. This would be exciting and scary, except it’s just not true. More »

CloudFlare Is Down, Taking Thousands Of Websites With It

CloudFlare Is Down, Taking Thousands Of Websites With It

Web accelerator CloudFlare is having network-wide DNS issues, and it looks like all sites that use it as a front-end proxy are down as a result. The company has confirmed the outage with a Tweet that says: “we’re experencing a network-wide issue. Looking into the root cause”. If you have a site using it, you could always try to revert back to your old DNS settings, but I think that they will most likely solve it before any change in those settings will have propagated to the Internet. (more…)

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