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Subject Huge attack on WordPress sites could spawn never-before-seen super botnet

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What does it mean this , can anyone explain what could happen please ? sorry for being thick i not heard of wordpress
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It probably won't mean too much for you if you don't run websites. This honestly isn't a huge deal IMO. Here's a snippet from the article:

[quote:fta]The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to [b]brute-force crack administrative credentials[/b] of vulnerable WordPress systems
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So basically this system/network is targeting Wordpress websites and brute-forcing the admin passwords. Then once they are logged into admin they can fuck around with anything... so it's not good if people running a Wordpress website have a weak admin password.

And to clarify just for those who don't know, Wordpress is a blogging platform. You would buy a website server and then download Wordpress from here: http://wordpress.org/

It's a free script that is managed by a team of developers. So webmasters can install Wordpress and then run a blog or website without coding everything from scratch. It is just a more advanced method of managing a website.
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Original Message "Security analysts have detected an ongoing attack that uses a huge number of computers from across the Internet to commandeer servers that run the WordPress blogging application."

"The unknown people behind the highly distributed attack are using more than 90,000 IP addresses to brute-force crack administrative credentials of vulnerable WordPress systems, researchers from at least three Web hosting services reported. At least one company warned that the attackers may be in the process of building a "botnet" of infected computers that's vastly stronger and more destructive than those available today. That's because the servers have bandwidth connections that that are typically tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times faster than botnets made of infected machines in homes and small businesses."

[link to arstechnica.com]

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