Re: Site issues
Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 11:38 am
I have more information on the outage, and thought we were done with it, but this morning we had 3 more outages so I've written to the host (and am exploring alternate hosting choices should the need arise) to clarify if those downtimes were more of the same.
We have enough information to suggest that the problems we've been having are due to a global assault on ALL uses of the software I've got for our News, of all things. Someone has created a botnet that's trying to brute-force its way into the admin on all Wordpress sites, which randomly includes our own. I've taken several steps to rebuff those attacks, although I believe other reporters are locked out of using the news for now because of that. Once I hear back from the host confirming some things, I'm going to turn forums Search and User Registration back on with some additional safety systems in place on them from bot attacks.
Thanks for your patience.
-JT
We have enough information to suggest that the problems we've been having are due to a global assault on ALL uses of the software I've got for our News, of all things. Someone has created a botnet that's trying to brute-force its way into the admin on all Wordpress sites, which randomly includes our own. I've taken several steps to rebuff those attacks, although I believe other reporters are locked out of using the news for now because of that. Once I hear back from the host confirming some things, I'm going to turn forums Search and User Registration back on with some additional safety systems in place on them from bot attacks.
Thanks for your patience.
-JT