Large DDoS attack brings WordPress pingback abuse back into spotlight

Posted by tuxchick on Mar 13, 2014 2:29 PM EDT
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LinuxSecurity.com: Attackers have abused the WordPress pingback feature, which allows sites to cross-reference blog posts, to launch a large-scale, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according to researchers from Web security firm Sucuri.

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