Tag: dos

  • WPWeekly Episode 304 – DesktopServer, Life, and Health with Marc Benzakein

    WPWeekly Episode 304 – DesktopServer, Life, and Health with Marc Benzakein

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Marc Benzakein, Operations Manager for ServerPress, LLC. We discussed recent updates to DesktopServer and received a progress report on 4.0. Marc also shared some of the struggles the team encountered throughout 2017. We learned what’s new with WP SiteSync and what customers can look…

  • Raw Look At The Trackback Attack

    Now that I’ve weathered the storm and the attacks have subsided for now, I think it would be good to share with you what my raw access log files looked like during that day to see the distributed denial of service in action. Thanks to Kim Parsell, I was able to rename the raw access…

  • WPTavern Was Trackbacked To Death

    Now that things have calmed down, it’s time to discuss what happened that took WPTavern.com offline. It all started the day I published my review of the Backup Buddy plugin from PluginBuddy.com. That post not only received a large number of comments, but it ended up on StumbleUpon and was overall a large success. However,…