Don’t Let DDoS’ get your site down
Remember life before social media? How quiet and content we seemed to be? How the only place we got our information was from the local news or cable outlet? Maybe a phone call, or via email? Today however, we seem to be inundated with information, with raw unfiltered data, left to our thoughts and perceptions of what they really mean. Every day there is some new tragedy, a plane goes missing, a child is abducted, a school shooting, the brink of WWW III. Is it that we live in a time where we are all losing our mind? Or maybe, could it be that the only difference between now and then, is the insane amount of information at our finger tips?
With this in mind, yes, it’s true, there are ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Brute Force attacks against WordPress sites. In fact it extends far beyond that specific platform, it’s affecting many other platforms like vBulletin, Joomla, Drupal. The reality is that these attacks have been ongoing for many months now, so much so, that they’ve become part of our daily life and it’s not when they happen that we’re surprised, quite the contrary, when they don’t.