Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com ...
The blogger platform wordpress.com has been target of a massive hacker attack, which had possibly political motives. The DDoS attack (distributed denial of service) resulted in significant damage on Thursday (local time).
Occasionally individual blogs were not to reach. The head of wordpress.com, Matt Mullenweg, explained in the specialist service of «The next Web», all three data centers in Chicago, San Antonio and Dallas had been flooded with data masses would have achieved several gigabits per second. Target a DDoS attack is, in this way, shut down the Web server. Mullenweg spoke of the most serious attack in the six-year history of wordpress.com. It will be believed that the attack have turned is on a single blog, which is hosted on wordpress.com.
WordPress is an open-source software for the design of blogs and other Web services. WordPress.com provides not only the software but also the space that is required on a Web server. 18 Million blogs run on the platform.
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