DDoS attack on Wordpress.com was from ChinaMarch 5, 2011 - 17:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service’s history yesterday morning, blog host WordPress.com was attacked again very early this morning, finally stabilizing its service at 11:15 UTC (around 3:15 am PST). WordPress.com serves 18 million sites, many of them news sites which lead some to conjecture that the attacks had come from the Middle East, a region experiencing its own Internet issues at the moment. Automatic founder Matt Mullenweg said that 98% of the attacks over the past two days originated in China with a small percentage coming from Japan and Korea. WordPress.com doesn’t know exactly why the site was targeted and won’t reveal the name until it does. Mullenweg said the recent attacks have impacted not just WordPress.com sites; other servers in the same part of the network also caused outages. WordPress.com is collaborating with upstream providers to shift the attacks, TechCrunch reports. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | International cybercrime ringleaders arrested in Armenia, Ukraine Europol, Europe's crime agency, has arrested four ringleaders of several cybercrime networks that used botnets. Armenia skips CSTO Defense Ministers meeting A meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization countries began in Almaty. Armenian, Iranian foreigh policy chief talk over the phone The Foreign Minister of Armenia once again expressed condolences to his counterpart on the death of the President of Iran. Armenia, U.S. customs authorities to boost assistance with new deal The government has approved an agreement with the U.S. government on mutual assistance between the customs authorities. |