Friday, March 14, 2014

Massive DDOS Attack: 162k Word Press Sites Turned into Unwitting Accomplices

HTTP-based distributed flood attack forced constant page reloads at target site... 

Read the story: "With some old-fashioned trickery, hackers were able to get more than 162,000 legitimate WordPress-powered Web sites to mount a distributed-denial-of-service attack against another Web site, security researchers said Monday:"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57620208-83/ddos-attack-is-launched-from-162000-wordpress-sites/

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