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[RSS] - Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack - rssdog - 08-07-2014
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/TheHackersNews/~3/s92Auf49ZQI/millions-of-wordpress-and-drupal.html
RE: [RSS] - Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack - Singularity_mybb_import13102 - 08-07-2014
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.