{"id":24781,"date":"2011-03-04T01:25:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=24781"},"modified":"2011-03-04T01:25:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T00:25:13","slug":"la-volta-che-attaccarono-wordpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/la-volta-che-attaccarono-wordpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"La volta che attaccarono WordPress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/03\/03\/wordpress-com-suffers-major-ddos-attack\/\">Via Techcrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogohblog.com\/wp-content\/pop\/2009\/04\/wordpress-must-dos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"133\" \/>You have no idea how hard it was to get this post up, as <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.com\/\">WordPress.com<\/a>,  our blog host, is currently under a denial of service attack. It\u2019s been  almost impossible to access the TechCrunch backend for the past 10  minutes (everything seems to be stable now) and users have been  receiving a <em>\u201cWrites to the service have been disabled, we will be bringing everything back online ASAP\u201d<\/em> error message.<\/p>\n<p>From the VIP blog post:<\/p>\n<p>WordPress.com is currently being targeted by a extremely  large Distributed Denial of Service attack which is affecting  connectivity in some cases. The size of the attack is multiple Gigabits  per second and tens of millions of packets per second.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are working to mitigate the attack, but because of the extreme  size, it is proving rather difficult. At this time, everything should be  back to normal as the attack has subsided, but we are actively working  with our upstream providers on measures to prevent such attacks from  affecting connectivity going forward.<\/p>\n<p>We will be making our VIP sites a priority in this endeavor, and as  always, you can contact us via xxxxx@wordpress.com for the latest  update. We will also update this post with more information as it  becomes available<\/p>\n<p>WordPress did not mention the origin of the attack (DDoS =!  Anonymous) and I have contacted founder Matt Mullenweg for more  information. WordPress.com currently serves 30 million publishers,  including VIPs TED, CBS and TechCrunch, and is responsible for 10% of  all websites in the world. WordPress.com itself sees about 300 million  unique visits monthly.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/03\/03\/wordpress-com-suffers-major-ddos-attack\/\">Update:<\/a><\/strong> Automattic and WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg tells us that this is  the largest attack WordPress.com has ever seen, and is likely to be  politically motivated:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Techcrunch You have no idea how hard it was to get this post up, as WordPress.com, our blog host, is currently under a denial of service attack. It\u2019s been almost impossible to access the TechCrunch backend for the past 10 minutes (everything seems to be stable now) and users have been receiving a \u201cWrites &#8230; <a title=\"La volta che attaccarono WordPress.com\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/la-volta-che-attaccarono-wordpress-com\/\" aria-label=\"Per saperne di pi\u00f9 su La volta che attaccarono WordPress.com\">Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[2157,168,374],"class_list":["post-24781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-internet","tag-blog","tag-hacker","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24784,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24781\/revisions\/24784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}