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Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack

Users running the website on a self-hosted WordPress or on Drupal are strongly recommended to update their websites to the latest version immediately.



A moderately critical vulnerability was discovered in the way Drupal and WordPress implement XMLRPC, which can lead an attacker to disable your website via a method known as Denial of Service (DoS).



VULNERABILITY RESULTS IN DoS ATTACK



http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheHacker...rupal.html

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I love seeing DoS attacks crafted like this.
The reason is because most people throw out the "Only srubs/noobs do a D/DoS attacks because it's so easy", but this really shows how creative you can be with the attack, and how it can be done in a non-noob fashion.